Xiaolei Huang

Ph.D. @ University of Colorado Boulder

Brief Intro.

I'm currently a 4th year Ph.D. student of Information Science (advised by Prof. Michael J. Paul) @ the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, I graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences with MSc. degree in Computer Science.

My current research interest is in domain adaptation & cross-lingual transfer learning, with applications in health informatics. For example, I modeled and analyzed public health issues (flu vaccination services and mental health) via social media. I also had some experience in cross-lingual transfer learning of low resourced languages.

In my free time, I enjoy hiking and doing volunteering works. I volunteered in YMCA, One Heartland, local nursing house & HIV organization, etc. I love cooking and traveling.

See my [CV], The reference list is based on request.

Top 5 News:

  • 2019 - 08 Paper of "Preprocessing Matters for Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition" got accepted in EMNLP-2019. (Hong Kong, China). love its food, learn Cantonese in progress.
  • 2019 - 07 Paper of "Smart Cook: Making Cooking Easier with Multimodal Learning" got accepted in Ubicomp 2019. We apply Multimodal models and Elasticsearch engine to enhance cooking experience.
  • 2019 - 05 Paper of "Neural Temporality Adaptation for Document Classification: Diachronic Word Embeddings and Domain Adaptation Models" was accepted by ACL 2019.
  • 2019 - 04 Paper of "Neural User Factor Adaptation for Text Classification: Learning to Generalize Across Author Demographics" was accepted by *SEM 2019;
  • 2019 - 02 I will join Adobe Research at San Jose as a Research Intern this summer;

Professional Services:

  • Conference Reviewer (PC):
    • 2019: EMNLP, ACL, ICWSM, NAACL
  • Journal Reviewer:
    • Computer Science: Future Generation Computer Systems (2018); Artificial Intelligence Review (2018-19)
    • Social Sciences: The Social Science Journal (2019)
  • Workshop Reviewer (PC):
  • 2nd Reviewer:
    • WWW'17, EMNLP'17, AAAI'18, NAACL'18, EMNLP'18