ABOUT
Recently I've decided to continue pursuing my PhD for the next four years.Hi! I'm Yuwei, a M.S. student loving computer science! My advisor is Feifei Li. I'm interested in machine learning for natural language understanding, data mining, and database (automatic database tuning, workload prediction, log analysis etc). As a quick learner, I'm also quite passionate about exploring new fields! :)
I married Yanqing Peng in summer 2017.
EDUCATION
- 2017.08 - NOW | Computer Science, University of Utah, GPA: 4.00/4.00
- 2013.09 - 2017.06 | Computer Science, East China Normal University, GPA: 3.73/4.00, Rank: 3/100
- 2014.09 - 2015.02 | Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Exchange student
EXPERIENCE
- 2017.08 - NOW | Research Assistant @ University of Utah, InitialD Lab
- 2018.05 - 2018.08 | Intern @ Alibaba Group, Intelligent Database
PUBLICATION
- Linguistic Properties Matter for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition:Combining Semantic Interaction, Topic Continuity and Attribution (AAAI'18 ORAL)
Wenqiang Lei, Yuanxin Xiang, Yuwei Wang, Qian Zhong, Meichun Liu, Min-Yen Kan
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We demonstrate the cooperation of discourse relations’ semantic characteristics and the two cohesion devices of topic continuity and attribution. By encoding those patterns as complex features, we obtain significant improvement over a strong baseline, achieving a new state-of-the-art level of performance.
HONORS
PROGRAMMING CONTEST
- Lucid Programming Competition, 2017
Runner-up - Microsoft MSFT3c Coding Competition, 2017
Runner-up - National Olympiad in Informatics (NOIp), 2013
First Prize
HACKATHONS
- Google Female Student Hackathon, 2018
SCHOLARSHIPS
- Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship (full reimbursement), 2018
AnitaB.org - Outstanding Dissertation for Bachelor’s Degree, 2017
East China Normal University - ECNU Scholarship - First Class, 2014, 2015, 2016
East China Normal University