Mr. Yifan Gao Was Selected as Top 100 Chinese New Stars in Artificial Intelligence, AI華人新星百強, by Baidu Scholar

Congratulations to Yifan Gao selected as Top 100 Chinese New Stars in Artificial Intelligence, AI華人新星百強, (Natural Language Processing Area) by Baidu Scholar.

On May 11, 2021, the 2021 artificial intelligence global high-potential Chinese students — Top 100 Chinese New Stars in Artificial Intelligence was officially announced. The AI Chinese Rising Stars list is jointly released by Baidu Talent Intelligence Center (TIC), Baidu Scholar, China Social Computing Research Center of Tianjin University, and Business Intelligence Center of University of Science and Technology of China. Candidates are selected among Chinese students in the field of AI all over the world (graduating no earlier than 2020). The selection is based on papers published by the students during their studies, which include 65,255 papers in 55 top international journals and conferences in the field of artificial intelligence from 45,205 students. With reference to the research area definition recommended by the China Computer Federation (CCF) and the suggestions of domestic scholars and experts, 25 young students (100 in total) were selected from the four fields of computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, and data mining.

Mr. Yifan Gao is currently a 4th year PhD student in CSE department under the supervision of Prof. Irwin King and Prof. Michael R. Lyu. His research topic is question answering, text generation and dialogue in natural language processing (NLP). He has published several research papers on top natural language processing conferences, and served as PC member for top NLP/AI conferences.

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