About Me
Wei Cheng is a Senior Researcher at NEC Labs America. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, UNC at Chapel Hill in 2015, advised by Prof. Wei Wang. His research interests include data science, machine learning and bioinformatics. He has filed more than 100 patents, and has published more than 100 research papers in top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, SIGKDD, ICLR, WWW, EMNLP, ISMB and journals such as Nature, Science, TPAMI, TNNLS, TKDE, Bioinformatics, etc. His research results received Best Research Paper Runner-Up Award at SIGKDD 2016 and were nominated for the Best Paper Award at ICDM 2018, ICDM 2017, ICDM 2015 and SDM 2012. He has also served as area chairs for several top-tier conferences including ACL, SIGKDD, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCAI, SDM, AAAI, WSDM, etc.
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Research Interests
Machine Learning: Deep Learning, GNN, Reinforcement Learning, Transfer Learning, Meta-Learning, Federated Learning, Imitation Learning
NLP: LLM-generated Content Detection, LLM Adaptation, LLM Agent, Text Representation Learning, Sentiment Analysis
Data Science: Time Series Analysis, Anomaly Detection, Recommendation
Bioinformatics: eQTL Study, Gene Pathway Analysis
Education
Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015. Advisor: Prof. Wei Wang (UCLA).
M.E., Tsinghua University, 2010.
B.E., Nanjing University, 2006.
Research Experience
Senior Research Staff Member: NEC Laboratories America, 2015.8-now.
Research Assistant: Data Mining, Bioinformatics, with Prof. Wei Wang, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2010-Summer 2015.
Research Intern: IBM Almaden Research, in Machine Learning Systems, Algorithms and Applications Group, with Dr. Alexandre V Evfimievski. 2014.6-2014.9
Research Intern: Tencent, Inc., in Machine Learning Group, with Dr. Zhifeng Yang, 2010.3-2010.7.
Research Intern: Microsoft Research Asia, in Machine Learning Group, with Dr. Jian-Tao Sun, 2008.9-2009.4.