Yanpeng Zhao (赵彦鹏) M.Sc. in Computer Science ShanghaiTech University Email: zhaoyp1#shanghaitech$\cdot$edu$\cdot$cn Office: 1A 306, SIST Building, ShanghaiTech Univ. [Publication] [Education] [Experience] [Awards] [Resume]

Hi! I am a third-year M.Sc. student in the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, under the supervision of Prof. Kewei Tu.
My research interests are in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), with a focus on machine learning approaches to linguistic structure prediction and language understanding and generation.

Current Work

I’m studying syntactic parsing with latent annotations, aiming to learn a better parse tree given the sentence and obtain compact grammars. We proposed a new syntactic parsing framework: Latent Vector Context-free Grammar (LVeG). We model subtypes of grammar rules in a high dimensional continuous space.

Publications

Journal Papers

• Learning Bayesian Network Structures Under Incremental Construction Curricula
  Yanpeng Zhao, Yetian Chen, Kewei Tu, and Jin Tian.
  Neurocomputing 2017. [paper].

Conference Papers

• Gaussian Mixture Latent Vector Grammars
  Yanpeng Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Kewei Tu.
  ACL 2018. [Paper], [Code].
• Structured Attentions for Visual Question Answering
  Chen Zhu, Yanpeng Zhao, Shuaiyi Huang, Kewei Tu, and Yi Ma.
  ICCV 2017 (poster). [paper], [code].
• Sequence Prediction Using Neural Network Classifiers
  Yanpeng Zhao, Shanbo Chu, Yang Zhou, and Kewei Tu.
  ICGI 2016 (workshop track). [paper], [slides].
• Curriculum Learning of Bayesian Network Structures
  Yanpeng Zhao, Yetian Chen, Kewei Tu, and Jin Tian.
  ACML 2015 (oral). [paper], [code], [poster].

Experience

• Tencent AI Lab, Shenzhen, China, Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
  Research Intern with Dr. Victoria W. Bi, Dr. Xiaojiang Liu, and Dr. Shuming Shi
• SIST, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China, Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
  Teaching Assistant for CS100 (Programming Languages and Data Structures) and CS110 (Computer Architecture I)

Education

• M.Sc., Computer Science. Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
  ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
  Adviser: Kewei Tu
• B.E., Software Engineering. Sep 2011 - Jun 2015
  Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
  Thesis: Curriculum Learning of Bayesian Network Structures

Selected Awards

• National Scholarships for Graduate Students (top 5%), 2017
• 2nd place in the Sequence Prediction Challenge (SPICE), ICGI 2016
• Outstanding Graduate Award, Wuhan University of Technology, 2015
• Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Wuhan University of Technology (top 5%), 2015
• Meritorious Winner, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) (top 11%), 2014

Professional Service

• Reviewer for the Neurocomputing Journal (2016, 2017)
• Volunteer at the ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology (SSIST), Jun 2016

Miscellaneous

• The avatar photo was taken during my road bike trip around the Qinghai Lake in the summer of 2012.