Aug 2017 – May 2021

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing

University of Southern California (USC) · Advisor: Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo (ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow) · Los Angeles, USA

Research Focus

During my Ph.D. studies at USC, I focused on representation learning, knowledge graphs, and machine learning research under the supervision of Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo (ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow).

Publications

  • Graph-Based Deep-Tree Recursive Neural Network (DTRNN) for Text Classification
  • Deepwalk-Assisted Graph PCA (DGPCA) for Language Networks
  • K-Covers for Active Learning in Image Classification
  • Post-Processing of Word Representations via Variance Normalization and Dynamic Embedding
  • Evaluating Word Embedding Models: Methods and Experimental Results — ATSIP 2019
  • Graph Representation Learning: A Survey
  • Efficient Sentence Embedding via Semantic Subspace Analysis
  • SBERT-WK: A Sentence Embedding Method by Dissecting BERT-based Word Models — TASLP 2020
  • Dynamic Texture Synthesis by Incorporating Long-range Spatial and Temporal Correlations
  • AnomalyHop: An SSL-based Image Anomaly Localization Method
  • Inductive Learning on Commonsense Knowledge Graph Completion — KDD 2021
  • PEDENet: Image Anomaly Localization via Patch Embedding and Density Estimation
  • GraphHop: An Enhanced Label Propagation Method for Node Classification
  • Task-Specific Dependency-based Word Embedding Methods
  • CORE: A Knowledge Graph Entity Type Prediction Method via Complex Space Regression and Embedding
  • KGBoost: A Classification-Based Knowledge Base Completion Method with Negative Sampling
  • Just Rank: Rethinking Evaluation with Word and Sentence Similarities — ACL 2022
  • SynWMD: Syntax-aware Word Mover's Distance for Sentence Similarity Evaluation
  • TypeEA: Type-Associated Embedding for Knowledge Graph Entity Alignment
  • An Overview on Language Models: Recent Developments and Outlook
  • CompoundE: Compounding Geometric Operations for Knowledge Graph Completion
  • GreenKGC: A Lightweight Knowledge Graph Completion Method
  • Knowledge Graph Embedding: An Overview
  • Knowledge Graph Embedding with 3D Compound Geometric Transformations
  • AsyncET: Asynchronous Learning for Knowledge Graph Entity Typing with Auxiliary Relations

Awards

  • APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award, 2024
  • APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award, 2022
  • GSG Research Travel Grant, USC, 2019

Teaching Assistantships

  • EE 599 — Applied and Cloud Computing for Electrical Engineers. Instructor: Dr. Brandon Franzke. Spring 2021.
  • EE 141L — Applied Linear Algebra for Engineers. Instructor: Prof. Antonio Ortega. Fall 2020.
  • EE 155L — Introduction to Computer Programming for Electrical Engineers. Instructor: Prof. Sandeep Gupta. Spring 2020.
  • EE 141L — Applied Linear Algebra for Engineers. Instructor: Prof. Antonio Ortega. Fall 2019.
  • EE 483 — Introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Instructor: Dr. Robert Popoli. Spring 2019.
  • EE 483 — Introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Instructor: Prof. Richard Leahy. Fall 2018.