Fall 2022 NLP Ph.D. positions at LanguageX Lab, Temple University

[Wenpeng Yin]

Ph.D. Vacancies: multiple openings are available for Fall 2022. Potential research directions are as follows:

Language problems:

• Semantics (e.g., better representations for natural text; semantic parsing, etc.)

• Information extraction (e.g., knowledge acquisition about entities, events, etc.)

• Language reasoning (textual entailment, question answering, commonsense, etc.)

Learning problems: 

• Learning from indirect supervision

• Learning from instructions

• Universal natural language processing

• Incremental learning

• Trustworthy learning

Cross-modal/disciplinary problems:

• Language + vision

• NLP in finance, security, bioinformatics, social science, etc.

Requirements for candidates:

• TOEFL or IELTS score available

• Research experience in NLP, IR, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Machine learning, etc.

How to apply: first send CV to wenpe...@temple.edu; selected candidates will be invited to apply formally through the Temple website. 

Lab Intro: LanguageX ("Language Explored") lab (www.wenpengyin.org/languagex-lab) was founded by Prof. Wenpeng Yin in Jan. 2022 at Temple University, aiming to advance the frontiers of language processing and understanding through studying some cutting-edge problems of languages, machine learning, etc. 

Dr. Wenpeng Yin: Tenure-track assistant professor at Temple University. Prior to this, he was a senior research scientist at Salesforce Research. He finished the postdoc training at UPenn in 2019 and got a Ph.D. degree from the University of Munich, Germany in 2017. Dr. Yin has published over 50 papers at leading NLP&AI conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.) and journals (TACL, TKDE, etc.) with the latest citation > 3540 and H-index 23. In addition, he is regularly invited as (Senior) Area Chairs for top venues, such as ACL, NAACL, ACL ARR, etc.