Biography

Dr. Wanxiang Che is a Professor at the Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). He serves as the Vice Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Deputy Director of the Research Center for Social Computing and Information Retrieval. He is a Young Scholar of the National-Level Youth Talent Program, a Young Scholar under the “Longjiang Scholars” program in Heilongjiang Province, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He currently serves for several academic committees, including: Board Member of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) and Deputy Director & Secretary-General of the Computational Linguistics Committee; Executive Board Member & Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL); Distinguished Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and former Chair of CCF YOCSEF Harbin (2016–2017); Co-Program Chair of ACL 2025. He has published over 200 research papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, including ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and IJCAI. His achieved the AAAI 2013 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention Award. His work has been cited over 14,000 times (Google Scholar), with an H-index of 56. He has authored four textbooks and translated two books. He is also the author of the book “Natural Language Processing: Methods Based on Pre-trained Models”. He has led multiple key research projects, including key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and “New Generation Artificial Intelligence” 2030 Program. He is the lead developer of the Language Technology Platform (LTP), which has been adopted by over 600 organizations and licensed for commercial use by Baidu, Tencent, Huawei, and other companies. He won several awards and honors, including: Heilongjiang Youth Science and Technology Award (2020); Google Focused Research Award (2015, 2016); First Prize of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Progress Award (2016, Second Contributor); Second Prize of Heilongjiang Technological Invention Award (2012, Second Contributor); First Prize of the “Qian Weichang” Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award (2010, Second Contributor); Hanwang Young Innovation Award (2010, Individual). He has been named among the “Top 2% of the World’s Leading Scientists” in the 2024 Stanford University & Elsevier global ranking. In 2017, his MOOC course Advanced Language Programming (Python) was recognized as a National-Level Quality Online Open Course.

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • Ph.D Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2008.12

    Harbin Institute of Technology

  • Bachelor Degree, School of Computer Science and Technology, 2002.07

    Harbin Institute of Technology

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Dec 2017 – Present Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Advisor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Apr 2014 – Present Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Associate Professor

Natural Language Processing Group, Stanford University

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Palo Alto
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Dec 2011 – Dec 2017 Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Visitor

Baidu

Apr 2010 – Jun 2010 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore

Jan 2007 – Jun 2007 Singapore
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Jul 2006 – Dec 2011 Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

Jul 2004 – Jul 2006 Harbin
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

IBM China Research Lab (CRL)

Mar 2004 – Jun 2004 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

Apr 2002 – Jul 2002 Beijing

Awards

Heilongjiang Youth Science and Technology Award

Heilongjiang Scholars Program:Young Scholar

The Second Prize of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Progress Award (Fifth Place)

The First Prize of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Place)

Google Focused Research Award

Google Focused Research Award

A Special Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

The Second Prize of Heilongjiang Province Technology Invention Award (Second Place)

The First Prize of HanWang Young Innovation Award

The First Prize of WeiChang Qian Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award (Second Place)

The Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship

Selected Professional Services

Organizations

  • Computational Linguistics Professional Committee of the Chinese Information Society of China: The Vice Director and Secretary-general
  • Officer and Secretary of AACL Executive Board
  • Senior Member of China Computer Federation (CCF)

Conferences

  • ACL: Sponsor Chair (2017, 2018), Area Chair (2016), Publication Chair (2015), Faculty Advisor of Student Research Workshop (2015, 2018), Reviewer
  • EMNLP: Publication Chair (2011)
  • SemEval: Organizers of Semantic Evaluation Exercises (2012, 2016)

Journals

  • Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS): Associate Editor
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP): Reviewer
  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP): Reviewer
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR): Reviewer

Projects

Theories and Methods of Natural Language Processing with Fewer Labels (62236004)

Open Domain Multiple Knowledge Acquisition and Deep Structured Semantic Analysis (2020AAA0106501)

Research on Cross-lingual Semantic Dependency Parsing (61976072)

Theory and Method of Internet Chinese Information Processing Oriented to Ternary Space (2014CB340503)

Research on Sub-Strucutre Reliability Computing of Dependency Syntactic Parsing (61370164)

Chinese Dependency Parsing (60803093)

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