Virginia Tech - CS PhD for Fall 2023 - NLP/DM/ML

PI: Dr. Xuan Wang will join Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2023. Xuan received her Ph.D. in Computer Science (2022) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Dr. Jiawei Han. She received M.S. in Statistics (2017) and M.S. in Biochemistry (2015) from UIUC. She received B.S. in Biological Science (2013) from Tsinghua University, China.

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Mining (DM)
1. Weakly-Supervised NLP and Text Mining:

• Learning Paradigms: Distantly-Supervised, Semi-Supervised, Self-Supervised, Few-Shot, Zero-Shot Learning, …
• Tasks: Information Extraction, Knowledge Graph Construction, Text Classification, Text Summarization, …
  

2. Multi-Modal Data Mining between Text and Graph

• Text-Augmented Open Knowledge Graph Reasoning
• Text-Graph Pre-Training for Multi-Modal Representation Learning
  

3. Interdisciplinary Applications

• AI for Science
• AI in Healthcare
  

Personal Website: xuanwang91.github.io

Prospective Students:
My lab at Virginia Tech has openings for PhD students and research internship opportunities for master/undergrad students. Prospective students satisfying the following criteria will be considered with a priority: (1) have publications in top NLP/DM/ML conferences, (2) have relevant research experiences in NLP/DM/ML, and/or (3) have a strong background in CS/Math/Stats.

Please email me (from my personal website) if you’re interested in working with me. In your email, please include the following items:

• Title as “Prospective Student: YourName - YourAffliation”
• Briefly introduce what research problem you are interested in.
• Briefly introduce yourself, including education background, research experiences, and programming skills.
• Briefly explain your motivations and expectations of working with me.
• Include a PDF version of your CV.