Zekang Li

Master Candidate

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Biography

Zekang Li is a master candidate in NLP Group, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Yang Feng. He worked as the AI Group Leader of Dian Group (2017~2019) (Dian Group ID: D610). Now he is in a research intern at Pattern Recognition Center, WeChat AI, Tencent, advised by Fandong Meng, Jinchao Zhang and Cheng Niu.

His research interests lie within deep learning for Natural Language Processing, particularly in dialogue systems and knowledge representation. His is also involved in Cognitive Science and its application in Dialogue System.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue System

Education

Master in Natural Language Processing, 2019~now
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
BSc in Electronic Information Engineering, 2015~2019
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Experience

Research Intern

Pattern Recognition Center, WeChat AI, Tencent

Nov 2018 – Present Beijing, China

Natural Language Processing, Dialogue system, Knowledge Engineering, Deep Learning

Knowledge Powered Dialogue System :

Document Grounded Conversations. A long paper accepted by ACL 2019. A long paper submitted to EMNLP 2019 workshop.
Audio Visual Scene-aware Dialog. Work in progress.

Dialogue Coherence and Diversity : A long paper submitted to AAAI 2020.

WeChat Reading Dataset: Work in progress.

Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs: A long paper submitted to AAAI 2020.

AI Group Leader

Dian Group, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 Wuhan, China

Founder of AI Group in Dian Group. AI Group contains 20+ undergraduate students who are interested in AI (natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning). We cooperate with famous companies on commercial or research projects.

AIbot: An Intelligent Customer Service Robot (Beibei Group).
AI Mooc: Build an intelligent question answering system for Mooc. We apply for the National Natural Science Funds.
AI in 5G: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to optimize Network Access Control in 5G. (Intel Inc)

NLP Engineer Intern

Beibei Group

Mar 2018 – Nov 2018 Hangzhou, China

Team Leader of Intelligent Customer Service Robot. Beibei Group is the biggest e-commerce company for mother and baby in China. Lead a team of 12 undergraduate students to develop a stable, learnable and reliable intelligent customer service robot to replace the original commercial system. The resp onse accuracy and customer’s satisfaction of our system outperforms the original commercial one (Yib ot). Now AIbot serves hundreds of millions customers.

Research Intern

Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, HUST

Oct 2017 – Jun 2018 Wuhan, China

Use deep reinforcement learning to tune cloud database automatically. Our system significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art tuning tools and DBA experts. And our paper is accepted by SIGMOD 2019.