Shengqiang's Blog

Shengqiang Zhang (张盛强)

Ph.D. student at the University of Munich (LMU Munich)

My current research focuses on natural language processing (NLP), grounded language processing, and the link between NLP and robotics.

Personal News

• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!
• [Sept. 2022] I start my PhD at LMU Munich!

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I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich. I am very fortunately co-advised by Prof. Hinrich Schütze and Prof. Barbara Plank. I am also an associated Ph.D. of relAI. Previously, I obtained my master’s degree from Peking University in July 2021. Before starting Ph.D., I spent a gap year as a research assistant advised by Wei Lu at SUTD, Singapore. I have several internships in industries such as Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu Search, where I fortunately worked with Xingxing Zhang and Dehong Ma, respectively.

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

• Attention Temperature Matters in Abstractive Summarization Distillation
  Shengqiang Zhang^*, Xingxing Zhang^*, Hangbo Bao, Furu Wei.
  In ACL 2022.

• Pre-trained Language Model based Ranking in Baidu Search
  Lixin Zou^*, Shengqiang Zhang^*, Hengyi Cai, Dehong Ma, Suqi Cheng, Daiting Shi, Shuaiqiang Wang, Zhicong Cheng, Dawei Yin.
  In KDD 2021.

• CUNY-PKU Parser at SemEval-2019 Task 1: Cross-Lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA
  Weimin Lyu, Sheng Huang, Abdul Rafae Khan, Shengqiang Zhang, Weiwei Sun, Jia Xu.
  In SemEval 2019.

Education

• 2018/09 – 2021/07, Master of Engineering at Peking University, Beijing, China
• 2015/09 – 2016/07, Exchange student at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
• 2014/09 – 2018/07, Bachelor of Science at Jilin University, Changchun, China

Work Experience

• 2021/11 – 2022/08, StatNLP at SUTD
• 2021/01 – 2021/06, Natural Language Computing (NLC) Group at Microsoft Research Asia
• 2020/09 – 2021/01, Learning to Rank (LTR) Group at Baidu Search
• 2019/12 – 2020/06, Speech Group at Microsoft Research Asia