CV

Education

• B.S. in Tianjin, China, Nankai University, 2014~2018
• M.S. in Kingston, Canada, Queen’s University, 2018~2020

Work experience

• 2020 Nov. to Present. : Associate researcher in HUAWEI Noah’s Ark Lab.
• 2020 Sep. to 2020 Nov. : Machine learning engineer in Livnao Inc.
• 2018 Sep. to 2020 Sep. : Research Assistant
  • Queen’s University
  • Duties included: Propose noval method for NLI task, Chatbot, Conversation disentangle
  • Supervisor: Professor Xiaodan Zhu

Skills

• Machine Learing
• Deep learning for NLP and CV
  • Python
  • Pytorch
  • Tensorflow
• Objective coding
  • C++
  • Java
• Big data
  • AWS
  • Spark

Publications

Conversation-and Tree-Structure Losses for Dialogue Disentanglement

Tianda Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu."Conversation-and Tree-Structure Losses for Dialogue Disentanglement." Accepted by ACL 2022, DialDoc Workshop and selected as best paper.

A Short Study on Compressing Decoder-Based Language Models

Tianda Li, Yassir El Mesbahi, Ivan Kobyzev, Ahmad Rashid, Atif Mahmud, Nithin Anchuri, Habib Hajimolahoseini, Yang Liu, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh."A Short Study on Compressing Decoder-Based Language Models." Accepted by Neurips 2021, ENLSP Workshop.

How to Select One Among All? An Extensive Empirical Study Towards the Robustness of Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Understanding

Tianda Li, Ahmad Rashid, Aref Jafari, Pranav Sharma, Ali Ghodsi, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh (2021). "How to Select One Among All? An Extensive Empirical Study Towards the Robustness of Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Understanding." 2021 EMNLP Findings 1.

Have You Made a Decision? Where? A Pilot Study on Interpretability of Polarity Analysis Based on Advising Problem

Tianda Li, Jia-Chen Gu, Hui Liu, Quan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Zhiming Su, Xiaodan Zhu (2021). " Have You Made a Decision? Where? A Pilot Study on Interpretability of Polarity Analysis Based on Advising Problem." 2021 ICASSP.'

Deep Contextualized Utterance Representations for Response Selection and Dialogue Analysis

Jia-Chen Gu, Tianda Li, Zhenhua Ling, Quan Liu, Zhiming Su, Yu-Ping Ruan, Xiandan Zhu (2021)."Deep Contextualized Utterance Representations for Response Selection and Dialogue Analysis." 2021 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Learning to Retrieve Entity-Aware Knowledge and Generate Responses with Copy Mechanism for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Chao-Hong Tan, Xiaoyu Yang, Zi'ou Zheng, Tianda Li, Yufei Feng, Jia-Chen Gu, Quan Liu, Dan Liu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Xiaodan Zhu (2020). "Learning to Retrieve Entity-Aware Knowledge and Generate Responses with Copy Mechanism for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems." AAAI 2021 Workshop on DSTC 9.

Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots

Jia-Chen Gu, Tianda Li, Quan Liu, Zhenhua Ling, Zhiming Su, Si Wei, Xiandan Zhu (2020)."Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots." CIKM 2020.

Pre-Trained and Attention-Based Neural Networks for Building Noetic Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Jia-Chen Gu, Tianda Li, Quan Liu, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu-Ping Ruan (2019)."Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots." Accepted by AAAI 2020, Workshop on DSTC8.

Several Experiments on Investigating Pretraining and Knowledge-Enhanced Models for Natural Language Inference

Tianda Li, Xiaodan Zhu, Quan Liu, Qian Chen, Zhigang Chen, Si Wei (2019). " Several Experiments on Investigating Pretraining and Knowledge-Enhanced Models for Natural Language Inference ." 'Arixv Preview'.

Teaching Assistant

• Jan 2019 to Apr 2019 I was assigned as Head teaching assistant for Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (ELEC 279). My duty including assisted professor with classroom instruction material, exams, and record keeping.

• Sep 2019 to Dec 2019 I was assigned as teaching assistant for Fundamentals of information Structures (ELEC 278). My duty including lead and supervised lab experience for undergraduate students and assisted professor with exams.