| 2021 | Best Paper Award, The 34th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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| 2020 | Mitchell Professor in Text Analytics and Machine Learning, Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, 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. |
| 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. | |
| 2003-2009 |
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist (International), 2008-2009.
Wolfond Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2008-2009.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2008-2009.
Graduate Scholarship, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2003-2008.
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| Earlier |
PhD Scholarship, Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2003
Wang Jiarong Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1999-2000
2nd-class Guanghua Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1998-1999
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