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Yang Liu
GDS Professor
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Institute for AI Industry Research
Tsinghua University

Bio
Yang Liu is the GDS Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He is Executive Dean of Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) and Associate Dean of the Department of Computer Science and Technology. His research interests include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and AI for Science. He received COLING/ACL 2006 Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award, ACL 2017 Outstanding Paper Award, ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award, and ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention. He served as Executive Committee Member of Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL, Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics, and Associate Editor of ACM TALLIP.
Selected Publications
- Xiangzhe Kong, Wenbing Huang, and Yang Liu. 2023. Conditional Antibody Design as 3D Equivariant Graph Translation. In Proceedings of ICLR 2023. [paper][arXiv][code] (ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention)
- Kaiyu Huang, Peng Li, Jin Ma, Ting Yao, and Yang Liu. 2023. Knowledge Transfer in Incremental Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2023. [paper] (ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award)
- Yanzhuo Ding, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan and Maosong Sun. 2017. Visualizing and Understanding Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada, July. [paper][slides][code] (ACL 2017 Outstanding Paper Award)
- Shiqi Shen, Yong Cheng, Zhongjun He, Wei He, Hua Wu, Maosong Sun, and Yang Liu. 2016. Minimum Risk Training for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, August. [paper][arXiv][code]
- Yang Liu, Qun Liu, and Shouxun Lin. 2006. Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, pages 609-616, Sydney, Australia, July. [paper][slides] (COLING/ACL 2006 Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award)
Full list
Teaching
- Fall 2023: Formal Languages and Automata
- Spring 2023: Foundations of Programming, Artificial Intelligence
- Fall 2022: Formal Languages and Automata
- Spring 2022: Foundations of Programming, Artificial Intelligence
- Fall 2021: Formal Languages and Automata, Natural Language Processing
- Spring 2021: Foundations of Programming, Formal Languages and Automata, Artificial Intelligence
- Fall 2020: Natural Language Processing
- Spring 2020: Foundations of Programming, Formal Languages and Automata, Artificial Intelligence
- Fall 2019: Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
- Spring 2019: Foundations of Programming, Formal Languages and Automata, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
- Fall 2018: Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
- Spring 2018: Foundations of Programming, Formal Languages and Automata, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
- Fall 2017: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
- Spring 2017: Foundations of Programming, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
- Fall 2016: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Frontiers and Hot Topics in Deep Learning
- Spring 2016: Foundations of Programming
- Spring 2015: Foundations of Programming
- Spring 2014: Foundations of Programming
- Spring 2013: Foundations of Programming
Students
Current Members
- Chi Chen, PhD, 2019-present
- Yuanhang Zheng, PhD, 2019-present
- Zonghan Yang, PhD, 2020-present
- Rui Jiao, PhD, 2021-present
- Zhicheng Guo, PhD, 2021-present
- Yuanchi Zhang, Master, 2021-present
- Zeyuan Yang, Master, 2021-present
- Kaiyu Huang, Posdoc, 2021-present
- Yile Wang, Posdoc, 2022-present
- Xiangzhe Kong, PhD, 2022-present
- Ziyue Wang, PhD, 2022-present
- Xiaolong Wang, PhD, 2022-present
- Jitao Xu, Posdoc, 2023-present
- Sijie Cheng, PhD, 2023-present
- Fuwen Luo, PhD, 2023-present
- Junkai Li, PhD, 2023-present
- Weitao Li, Master, 2023-present
Alumni
- Shuo Wang, PhD, 2018-2023
- Qinhong Zhou, Master, 2020-2023
- Zhicong Lin, Master, 2021-2023
- Fuchao Wei, PhD, 2016-2023 (co-advised with Prof. Guangwen Yang)
- Zhixing Tan, Posdoc, 2019-2022
- Huimeng Zhang, Master, 2019-2022
- Yizhou Xu, Master, 2019-2022
- Xuancheng Huang, PhD, 2017-2022
- Gang Chen, Master, 2018-2021
- Mieradilijiang Maimaiti, PhD, 2015-2021 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Jiacheng Zhang, PhD, 2015-2020
- Yanzhuo Ding, Master, 2016-2019
- Meng Zhang, PhD, 2013-2018 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Abudukelimu Halidanmu, PhD, 2012-2018 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Shiqi Shen, PhD, 2012-2017 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Yong Cheng, PhD, 2012-2017 (Tsinghua IIIS, co-advised with Prof. Wei Xu)
- Chunyang Liu, Master, 2013-2016
- Meiping Dong, Master, 2012-2015
- Peng Li, PhD, 2009-2015 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Henry Loharja, Master, 2012-2014
- Can Wang, Master, 2010-2013 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Qi Liu, Master, 2010-2013 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Shengtao Lei, Master, 2009-2012 (co-advised with Prof. Maosong Sun)
- Guosheng Ben (ICT/CAS), Master, 2010-2011
Selected Professional Services
Organizations
- Association for Computational Linguistics:
- ACL Reviewing Committee: Member (2019-2022)
- AACL: Executive Committee Member (2018-2020), Secretary (2018-2020)
- SIGHAN: Information Officer (2013-2022)
- Chinese Information Processing Society:
- Computational Linguistics Technical Committee: Chair (2022-present), Vice Chair (2018-2022), General Secretary (2013-2020), Member (2013-present)
- Youth Working Committee: Chair (2016-2018), Executive Committee Member (2012-2018), Committee Member (2012-2019)
- Chinese Association for Artifical Intelligence:
- Organization Working Committee: General Secretary (2022-present), Vice General Secretary (2020-2022)
Journals
- Computational Linguistics: Editorial Board Member (2018-2020)
- ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing: Associate Editor (2017-2020)
Conferences
- ACL: Area Chair (2017-2019, 2021), Best Paper Award Committee Member (2018), Local Arrangements Chair (2015), Tutorial Chair (2014), Faculty Advisor of Student Research Workshop (2016)
- EMNLP: Area Chair (2016, 2018-2021), Best Long Paper Award Committee Member (2018)
- AACL: Program Chair (2022)
- IJCAI: Senior Area Chair (2021), Senior PC member (2016, 2018-2020, 2022)
- AAAI: Senior PC member (2019-2020)
Created on 04/03/2004, last updated on 09/12/2023.