Scholar
Wei (Victor) Yang
Google Scholar ID: NNrBJsMAAAAJ
Tiktok Inc.
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,921
H-index
17
i10-index
19
Publications
20
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0
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - April 28, 2022: Filed one patent on semantic parsing.
- - October 4, 2021: Joined the Wish recommendation team, training (almost) all recommendation models at Wish and deploying them in production.
- - May 28, 2021: One paper accepted by ACL workshop. Check it out on Arxiv.
- - May 24, 2021: One demo paper accepted by ACL. Check it out on Arxiv.
- - May 7, 2021: Our paper on transformer optimization is accepted as the ACL main conference long paper! Check it out on Arxiv.
- - November 19, 2020: We are No.1 in the Spider Leaderboard (Yale Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Challenge). Check out our score here!
- - October 1, 2020: The source code for BERTserini is officially open-sourced here!
- - June 30, 2020: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to ICTIR 2020.
- - April 26, 2020: Attended two online conferences: WWW 2020 and ICLR 2020.
- - January 10, 2020: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to WWW 2020.
- - October 14, 2019: I have one demo paper accepted to WSDM 2020! Code has been released.
- - August 13, 2019: I have four papers accepted to EMNLP 2019!
- - July 28, 2019: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to ACL workshop (NLP for Conversational AI) 2019. I had a nice journey in Florence, Italy!
- - July 23, 2019: Excited to know that my SIGIR paper got the Best Paper Honorable Mention award! Check it here.
- - July 21, 2019: As the first author, I have one paper accepted to SIGIR 2019. I had a nice journey in Paris, France!
- - June 1, 2019: As the first author, I have two papers accepted to NAACL 2019. I had an exciting travel to Minneapolis, USA from June 1st to June 7th.
- - May 21, 2019: Our new submission to the MSMARCO passage re-ranking task tied for first place with a MRR of 0.383 on the eval set! See the leaderboard.
- - April 8, 2019: We are the top one in MSMARCO passage re-ranking task! See the leaderboard.
- - April 5, 2019: Successfully defended my Master thesis at the University of Waterloo! The title is End-to-end Neural Information Retrieval. See the paper and the slides.
- - January 27, 2019: I have one paper accepted to AAAI 2019.
Research Experience
- - May 2018 to May 2019: Interned at RSVP.ai, where he worked on coreference resolution tasks, customer complaint escalation tasks, and open domain question answering tasks.
Education
- - Degree: Master of Mathematics (Computer Science)
- - University: University of Waterloo
- - Supervisor: Jimmy Lin
- - Time: Not specified
- - Major: Computer Science
- - Degree: B.S.
- - University: Zhejiang University
- - Supervisor: Lu Wei
- - Time: Winter 2017
- - Major: Computer Science and Technology
Background
- - Research Interests: Information retrieval, recommender systems, e-commerce personalization; NLP applications: question answering, semantic parsing; data-driven machine learning and transfer learning
- - Brief Introduction: Working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Wish, focusing on recommendation and personalization for the Wish Clip (video shopping platform), homepage feed, related product feed, ad product feed, and other feeds. His work includes research, model training, validation, deployment, and system maintenance.
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