LU Wei

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Associate Professor & Associate Head of Pillar (Research)

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Website: http://statnlp.org/
Telephone: +65 6499 4784

Pillar / Cluster: Design and Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems Technology and Design

Biography

I am interested in designing mathematical models and machine learning algorithms for solving fundamental data processing problems, with a specific focus on natural language processing (NLP). I am particularly interested in fundamental problems related to structured prediction. Prior to joining SUTD, I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a PhD student at the Singapore-MIT Alliance of the National University of Singapore. Even earlier, I received my undergraduate degree (1st class honors) from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.

News

  • Jul 2022: Congratulations to Xinyu Wang for winning the Best Paper Award (top 0.45%=1/221) at SemEval 2022!
  • Jun 2022: Our StatNLP Group’s 10-year NLP research is ranked 12th (adj #: 17.8) globally based on CSRankings.
  • May 2022: Congratulations to Shengqiang Zhang for joining LMU Munich as a PhD student (with Hinrich Schütze)!
  • Feb 2022: Congratulations to Xinyu Wang for winning SemEval 2022 Task 11 in 10 out of 13 tracks!
  • Jan 2022: Congratulations to Yuxiang Zhou for joining Warwick University as a Postdoc (with Yulan He)!
  • Jul 2021: Congratulations to Jierui Li for joining the University of Texas at Austin as a PhD student (with Raymond Mooney)!

Recent Services

Selected Publications

Full publication list

Group Members

  • Liying Cheng (PhD student; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design; 1st Class Honors)
  • Richard Sun (PhD student; from: National University of Defense Science and Technology, China)
  • Lu Xu (PhD student; from: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Haoran Li (PhD student; from: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
  • Qi Zhang (PhD student; from: Zhejiang University, China; 1st Prize in National Mathematical Olympiad Competition, China)
  • Steven Wang (PhD student; from: Zhejiang University, China)
  • Guangtao Zeng (PhD student; from: Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
  • Sicong Leng (PhD student; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design; 1st Class Honors)
  • Tianduo Wang (PhD student; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design; 1st Class Honors)
  • Jiaxi Li (PhD student; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design; 1st Class Honors)
  • Jiale Han (Visiting PhD student; from: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
  • Lulu Zhao (Visiting PhD student; from: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
  • Xinyu Wang (Visiting PhD student; from: ShanghaiTech University, China)
  • Vanessa Tan Yun Han (Research assistant; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design)
  • Peiyuan Zhang (Research assistant; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design)
  • Ziqi Jin (UROP; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design)
  • Yutian Lin (UROP; from: Singapore University of Technology and Design)
  • Zhehao Zhang (Visiting fellow; from: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Zhiyuan College), China)
  • Yilin Liu (Visiting Fellow; from: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)

Group Alumni (PhD Students)

  • Zhijiang Guo
    To: University of Cambridge
    Internship: University of Edinburgh
  • Yanyan Zou
    To: Tencent AI Lab
    Internship: Microsoft Research Asia
  • Hao Li
    To: ByteDance AI Singapore
    Internship: Alibaba DAMO
  • Allan Jie
    To: ByteDance AI Singapore
    Internship: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    ISTD Best PhD Thesis Award

Group Alumni (Others)

  • Shengqiang Zhang (Research assistant; to: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
  • Zizhe Jiang (Visiting fellow; to: University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Shuyi Jia (UROP; to: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Christine Liu (Visiting fellow; from: University College London, UK)
  • Qingcheng Zeng (Visiting fellow; to: Northwestern University, USA)
  • Yuxiang Zhou (Visiting PhD student; to: University of Warwick, UK)
  • Jierui Li (Research assistant; to: University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Jiaqi Zeng (Visiting fellow; to: Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Yao Xiao (Visiting fellow; from: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
  • Xiaobao Wu (Visiting fellow; from: Tsinghua University, China)
  • Ankit Garg (Visiting fellow; to: University of California San Diego, USA)
  • Rui Qiao (Research assistant; to: National University of Singapore)
  • Jue Wang (Visiting fellow; from: Zhejiang University, China)
  • Xingce Bao (Visiting fellow; from: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Ivan Sekulić (Visiting fellow; from: Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany)
  • Jack Wu (Visiting fellow; from: York University, Canada)
  • Jieyu Chen (Visiting fellow; to: Cornell University, USA)
  • Boyuan Zhuang (Research assistant; from: University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Jing Liao (Visiting student; from: Zhejiang University, China)
  • Ke Shi (Research assistant; to: A*STAR AI, Singapore)
  • Jiaqi Pan (Visiting fellow; to: Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Rishabh Bhardwaj (Visiting student; to: National University of Singapore)
  • Leiming Du (Research assistant; to: Huawei, China)
  • Yu Jian Wu (Visiting student; to: Columbia University, USA)
  • Anh Nguyen Tuan (Visiting fellow; from: Vietnam National University)
  • Peter Phandi (Research assistant; from: National University of Singapore)
  • Utkarsh Sinha (Visiting fellow; to: Columbia University, USA)
  • Yiran Wang (Research officer; to: Columbia University, USA)
  • Amila Silva (Research assistant; to: Singapore Management University)
  • Hans Du (Visiting student; from: Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Bill Lin (Visiting student; to: University of Southern California, USA)
  • Yinan Shao (Visiting student; from: Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
  • Bailin Wang (Visiting student; to: University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Rachael Boyle (Visiting student; from: University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Yaqi Xie (UROP; to: National University of Singapore)
  • Siyuan Wang (UROP; to: Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Aldrian Obaja Muis (Research assistant; to: Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Raymond Hendy Susanto (Research assistant; from: National University of Singapore)
  • Swee Kiat Lim (Reserach officer; from: National University of Singapore)
  • Wei Yang (Visiting student; to: University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Hesam Amoualian (Visiting student; from: University of Grenoble Alpes, France)
  • Shaosheng Cao (Research assistant; to: AI Department, Ant Financial Services Group/Alipay, China)
  • Liling Tan (Research assistant; from: Saarland University, Germany)
  • Moein Khajehnejad (Research officer; from: Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
  • Jonathan Löfgren (Research officer; from: Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Bojia Qiu (Visiting student; from: Zhejiang University (Chu Kochen Honors College))
  • Wenqiang Xu (Research officer; from: University of Science and Technology of China (Special Class for the Gifted Young))
  • Tu Thanh Vu (Research officer; to: University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Si Kai Lee (Research officer; to: Columbia University, USA)
  • Sadegh Charmchi (Research officer; to: University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Ruidan He (UROP; to: National University of Singapore)
  • Cuong Xuan Chu (Research officer; to: Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  • Lifei Chen (Research officer; to: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Sean Matthew English (Research officer; to: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institute, Germany)

Recent Research Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Alibaba Innovative Research Program (2018-2019), US$100K
  • Principal Investigator, MOE Tier 2 Grant (2018-2021). S$540K
  • Principal Investigator, DSO Collaboration Grant (2017-2019). S$500K
  • Principal Investigator, Defence Innovative Research Programme Project (TBA). S$890K
  • Principal Investigator, MINDEF Grant – CISDeM T3 (2014-2018). S$610K

Awards

  • Best Paper Award, the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’11), 2011
  • Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2009-2010
  • Research Achievement Award, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2008-2009
  • President’s Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2006-2007
  • Singapore-MIT Alliance Scholarship, 2005-2006, 2006-2009
  • Dean’s List, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2001-2005
  • Singapore MOE Undergraduate Scholarship, 2000-2005
  • 1st Prize (perfect score: 140/140), National Mathematical Olympiad Competition, China, 1996
  • 1st Prize, National Mathematical Olympiad Competition, China, 1995

Teaching

Open Positions

I am looking for strong candidates for the following positions: Postdoctoral researchers, Research assistants, Visiting students, UG researchers, Programmers and PhD students. Drop me an email if you are interested.

Curriculum Vitae

My current CV (updated Feb 2022)

Research Statement

My Research Statement

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