Biography

Xiaojun Quan is a professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) since July 2017. Before joining SYSU, he was a research scientist in the data analytics department (DAD) at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, since January 2014. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, from Sep 2012 to Dec 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2012 from City University of Hong Kong, where he was among the several recipients of the School of Graduate Studies Scholarship, which is regarded as the highest honor for research students. He was a visiting scholar at Purdue University in 2011 collaborated with Prof. Luo Si and at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2010 collaborated with Prof. Hui Xiong. He received his master degree in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China in 2008.

Research interests:

His general research interests include natural language processing and machine learning, focusing on dialogue systems, pre-trained language models, sentiment analysis, and Chinese spelling correction.