Prof. Yue Zhang
Westlake University, China

Yue Zhang is a tenured Professor at Westlake University. His research interests include NLP and its underlying machine learning algorithms. His major contributions to the field include psycholinguistically motivated machine learning algorithm, learning-guided beam search for structured prediction, pioneering neural NLP models including graph LSTM, and OOD generalization for NLP. He authored the Cambridge University Press book ``Natural Language Processing -- a Machine Learning Perspective''. He is the PC co-chair for CCL 2020 and EMNLP 2022, and action editor for Transactios for ACL. He also served as associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions of Audio Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Languages (TALLIP), IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD) and Computer, Speech and Language (CSL). He won the best paper awards of IALP 2017 and COLING 2018, best paper honorable mention of SemEval 2020, and best paper nomination for ACL 2018 and ACL 2023.

 

Prof. Yuji Matsumoto
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan

Prof. Yuji Matsumoto is currently a team leader at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information science from Kyoto University in 1979 and in 1990, respectively. He joined Machine Inference Section of Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1979. He has been an academic visitor at Imperial College of Science and Technology, the deputy chief of First Laboratory at ICOT, an associate professor at Kyoto University, and a professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interests are natural language understanding and machine learning. He is an ACL fellow and a fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan.