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Shaojie Jiang

PhD student at ILPS

University of Amsterdam

About me

I am a 2nd year PhD student under the supervision of Maarten de Rijke and Christof Monz at ILPS, University of Amsterdam. I am interested in ML and NLP, especially open-domain dialogue systems (chatbots 🤖). I also take photos as a hobby 📸.

Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Photography

Education

  • PhD Student, 2017-2021 (expected)

    University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Master of Engineering, 2014-2017

    Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  • Bachelor of Engineering, 2010-2014

    Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Skills

Python

90%

PyTorch

90%

ParlAI

90%

Git

90%

Bash

50%

Photography

50%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

NLP Summit

Google

Jun 2019 – Jun 2019 Zurich, Switzerland
  • Thanks to Google for paying everything
  • Great opportunity to communicate with peers and Googlers
  • Presented my WWW ‘19 poster
  • Nice crystal clear water everywhere!
 
 
 
 
 

Poster presentation at TheWebConf

TheWebConf 2019

May 2019 – May 2019 San Francisco, California
  • Presented my poster for our paper accepted at TheWebConf ‘19
  • Thanks to all the coauthors!
  • Superb coastal views!
  • The Golden Gate Bridge is glorious!
 
 
 
 
 

Poster presentation at SCAI Workshop

EMNLP 2018

Oct 2018 – Nov 2018 Brussels, Belgium
  • Presented my poster for our paper accepted at SCAI Workshop
  • Awarded student travel grant (€400)
  • A nice city with Dutch-style and French-style (and more) architectures merged together
 
 
 
 
 

PhD student

University of Amsterdam

Oct 2017 – Present Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 

Master of Engineering

Northwest A&F University

Sep 2014 – Jun 2017 Yangling, China
  • Thesis title: Research on Feature Representation and Optimization Methods in Structured Object Tracking
  • Supervisor: Jifeng Ning
 
 
 
 
 

Bachelor of Engineering

Northwest A&F University

Sep 2010 – Jun 2014 Yangling, China
  • Thesis title: Implementation of Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior
  • Advisors: Dr. Yaojun Geng and Prof. Jifeng Ning

Recent Posts

What's New in XLNet?

In this post, I will try to understand what makes XLNet better than BERT.
Last updated on Jul 4, 2019 4 min read NLP, Deep Learning

Recent Publications

Improving Neural Response Diversity with Frequency-Aware Cross-Entropy Loss

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Why are Sequence-to-Sequence Models So Dull? Understanding the Low-Diversity Problem of Chatbots

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Robust Struck tracker via color Haar-like feature and selective updating

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Object tracking via dual linear structured SVM and explicit feature map

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Contact

  • s.jiang AT uva DOT nl
  • Science Park 608B, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1098 XH, The Netherlands
  • Mint green building, ground floor, room 0.07.
  • Mon 10:00 to 18:00
    Tue 10:00 to 18:00
    Wed 10:00 to 18:00
    Thu 10:00 to 18:00
    Fri 10:00 to 18:00
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