Minlie Huang

Minlie Huang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers in premier conferences and journals ACL, EMNLP, TACL and TASLP. His research interests include natural language processing, particularly in dialog systems, reading comprehension, and sentiment analysis.

His work on emotional chatting machines was reported by MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Nvidia, and many other mass media. He is an editor of TACL, CL, TNNLS, the Area Chair or SAC of ACL/EMNLP for more than 10 times. He is a nominee of ACL 2019 best demo papers, the recipient of IJCAI 2018 distinguished paper award, CCL 2018 best demo award, NLPCC 2015 best paper award, Hanvon Youngth Innovation Award in 2018, Wuwenjun AI Award in 2019, and SIGDIAL 2020 best paper award. He was supported by a NSFC key project, several NSFC regular projects, and many IT companies.

Companies

• Associate Professor Tsinghua University (2006)
• Visisting professor National University of Singapore (2014 — 2014)
• National Center for Bio-Information (NCBI) Rockville 20852, Maryland, USA (2010 — 2010)
• Visiting Professor National Institutes of Health (2010 — 2010)