Kenny Q. Zhu (朱其立) Professor Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering University of Texas at Arlington

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Prospective graduate students:
I am recruiting PhD students for the Fall 2024 admission. If you are curious, honest, independent and hardworking, and want to work on :
Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence, please email your CV and transcripts to me!

Prospective undergraduate students:
Please check out our wonderful summer REU site research opportunity funded by National Science Foundation (NSF): Animal Language Processing and Understanding!

News

• One paper accepted by ICLR 2024. Congrats to Roy!
• On Jan 5, 2024, I received my first NSF award (PI) from CISE/OAC program on "REU Site: Animal Language Processing and Understanding". Thank you, UTA and NSF!
• Four papers accepted by EMNLP 2023 main conference, and one by EMNLP Findings. See you in Singapore!
• One paper *finally* accepted by ACM Computing Surveys, Sept, 2023!
• One paper accepted by ACM MM 2023 (main track) and one paper by ECAI 2023.
• Two papers accepted by ACL 2023 (main and industry track) and four accepted by ACL Findings 2023.
• Two full papers accepted by EMNLP 2022 main conference.
• Yizhu Liu is conferred with PhD of distinctions from ADAPT.
• One full paper accepted by IJCAI 2022 (AI for good track).
• Two papers accepted by NAACL 2022 (main conference) and two papers accepted by Findings of NAACL 2022.
• One full paper accepted by SIGIR 2022.
• Two full papers accepted by ACL 2022 (main conference).
• One paper accepted by ICASSP 2022.
• One short paper accepted by CIKM 2021.
• One full paper accepted by ACL Findings 2021.
• One full paper accepted by IJCAI 2021.
• Two full papers accepted by WWW 2021.
• Two full papers accepted by AAAI 2021.

Research

Current Research

• Animal language processing and understanding (view demo)
• NLP for mental health
• Fusing structured knowledge with language models

Good Research Advices

• How to write a good research paper. Simon Peyton Jones.
• Common errors in technical writing.. John Owens @ UC Davis and Kenny Zhu @ UTA.
• How to give a good research talk. Simon Peyton Jones.
• What's the right way to do scientific experiments. Amer Diwan @ PLDI 2012.

My Students' Top Cited Papers (>50 cites)

• Ke Wu, Song Yang, Kenny Q. Zhu. False rumors detection on sina weibo by propagation structures. ICDE 2015. Citations
• Bill Y. Lin, Frank F. Xu, Zhiyi Luo, Kenny Q. Zhu. Multi-channel bilstm-crf model for emerging named entity recognition in social media. ACL NUT 2017. Citations
• Kangqi Luo, Fengli Lin, Xusheng Luo, Kenny Q. Zhu. Knowledge base question answering via encoding of complex query graphs. EMNLP 2018. Citations
• Kaiqi Zhao, Gao Cong, Quan Yuan, Kenny Q. Zhu. SAR: A sentiment-aspect-region model for user preference analysis in geo-tagged reviews. ICDE 2015. Citations
• Zhiyi Luo, Yuchen Sha, Kenny Q. Zhu, S Hwang, Z Wang. Commonsense causal reasoning between short texts. KR 2016. Citations
• Yuding Liang, Kenny Q. Zhu. Automatic generation of text descriptive comments for code blocks. AAAI 2018. Citations
• Yizhu Liu, Zhiyi Luo, Kenny Q. Zhu. Controlling length in abstractive summarization using a convolutional neural network. EMNLP 2018. Citations
• Xusheng Luo, Luxin Liu, Yonghua Yang, Le Bo, Yuanpeng Cao, Jinghang Wu, Qiang Li, Keping Yang, Kenny Q. Zhu. AliCoCo: Alibaba e-commerce cognitive concept net. SIGMOD 2020. Citations
• Zhiyi Luo, Shanshan Huang, Kenny Q. Zhu. Knowledge empowered prominent aspect extraction from product review. Information Processing & Management 56 (2). Citations

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