| 2024 | Best Long Paper Award, NAACL-2024 TrustNLP Workshop
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| 2022-2023 | JP Morgan Faculty Research Award
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| 2021 | Best Paper Award, The 34th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. |
| 2021 | NEC Labs America Faculty Research Award
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| 2020 | Mitchell Professor, Smith Engineering, Queen’s University
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| 2019 | Outstanding Area Chair, EMNLP
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| 2018 | My proposal was selected and funded by the prestigious NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) program, which is awarded to 4-5% of ~3,000 NSERC Discovery Grants applications. |
| 2017 | Our model (alpha) is ranked among the top in the RepEval-17 Shared Task.
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| 2015 | Best Paper Award. The Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Denver, Colorado, USA. |
| 2014 | 1st places (among 40+ participanting teams), Semeval-2014 Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Shared Task. |
| *Team work. I led NRC's efforts on the phrase-level task, which was one of the two official tasks in the challenge. Our models ranked 1st place (among submissions from 46 teams) on five out of ten subtasks/datasets in the shared task. | |
| 2014 | NRC-ICT Instant Award, Information Communication and Technologies, National Research Council Canada (NRC). |
| 2013 | 1st place (among 40+ participanting teams), Semeval-2013 Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Shared Task. |
| *Team work. I led NRC's efforts on the phrase-level task, which was one of the two official tasks in the challenge. | |
| 2012 | 1st place (with a statistic tie with another submission), i2b2-2012 Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data: Temporal Relations. |
| *Team work. I was a key contributor and responsible for local-temporal relations. | |
| 2010 | 1st and 2nd places (over 40+ international teams) i2b2-2010 Challenge on Medical Information Extraction. |
| *Team work. I led NRC’s efforts on semantic relation detection among medical entities, which was one of the three official tasks in the challenge. | |
| Earlier |
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist (International), 2009.
Wolfond Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2008.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2008.
PhD Scholarship, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2003
Wang Jiarong Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1999
Guanghua Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1998
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