Lei Sha

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Professor  
Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates  
Supervisor of Master's Candidates  

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I am a Professor in the AI institute of Beihang University. Before that, I was a research associate advised by Prof. Thomas Lukasiewicz in the Intelligent System Lab, University of Oxford. Previously, I was an NLP research scientist in Apple. While at Apple, I am responsible for Siri’s module, such as domain classification and chit-chat dialogue. Before that, in 2018, I obtained my PhD degree and graduated from Peking University, China, where I worked with Prof. Zhifang Sui, Prof. Baobao Chang, and Prof. Sujian Li. I also served as a research assistant in Microsoft Research Asia, working with Chin-yew Lin, Lintao Zhang, and Qi Chen. During my PhD period, I majored in information extraction and text generation. I have published many first-author papers in top conferences of NLP, such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, etc. My research interest focus on natural language understanding, controllable text generation, and interpretable deep NLP models.

Educational Experience

2013.9 2018.7

  • 北京大学
  • Computer Science and Technology
  • Doctoral Degree in Science
  • With Certificate of Graduation for Doctorate Study

Work Experience

2020.3 2022.3
  • University of Oxford
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Research Associate
2018.8 2020.4
  • Apple Inc
  • Siri NL
  • NLP Research Scientist

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