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Xu Sun is Tenure-Track Faculty and PhD Supervisor in Department of Computer Science, Peking University. He got Ph.D from The University of Tokyo (2010), M.S. from Peking University (2007), and B.E. from Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (2004). From 2010 to 2012, he worked at The University of Tokyo, Cornell University, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Research Fellow/Associate. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning. He has been Area Chair and Senior PC of EMNLP 2015, IJCAI 2018, IJCNLP 2017; PC member of ACL, IJCAI, AAAI, COLING, EMNLP, NAACL; Journal reviewer of IEEE TPAMI, Comput. Linguist., TACL, and so on. He is the recipient of COLING 2018 Best Paper Award, Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award 2015 (求是杰出青年学者奖), National Project of Thousand Youth Talents 2014 (第十批青年千人), and Okawa Research Grant Award 2016.

Education

• PhD in computer science, The University of Tokyo, 2010. Advisor: Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii
• M.S. in computer science, Peking University, 2007.
• B.E. in computer science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2004

My current research focus is natural language processing and machine learning. In general, I am trying to develop novel structured learning theories and methods for solving large-scale natural language processing problems (i.e., how to make a machine to "understand" human language?). See my EMNLP 2016 tutorial about this topic.