Yang Gao (高扬)

Research Engineer, Google Research

Office Address: 6 Pancras Square, London, UK

Personal Email: gaoyang_alex@hotmail.com

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About me:

I joined Google Research in December 2021. My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Previously, I was a Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London from 2019 to 2021, a postdoc at TU Darmstadt from 2017 to 2019 (working with Prof Iryna Gurevych at the UKP lab), an Assistant Professor at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2015 to 2017, and a PhD candidate/Research Associate at Imperial College London from 2011 to 2015 (working with Prof Francesca Toni at the CLArg lab). For further details please refer to my CV.

Public service: I served as a Publication Co-Chair at EMNLP 2020, an Area Chair (in the Summarisation domain) at ACL 2020, and an organiser of the NLP-Evaluation workshop co-located with EMNLP 20/21. I am also a Standing Reviewer for Transactions of ACL. Before, I served as a Programme Committee member at KR (2014, 2016), IJCAI (2015), AAAI (2016,17,18), ACL (2019,20,21), EMNLP (2020, outstanding reviewer) and NAACL (2021) .

Funding: I was the principal investigator of project 61602453 funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, from Jan 2017 to Dec 2019.