Personal Profile

Graduated from the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Dr. Wei is an associate professor, a Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates and an overseas post-doctor. He now works as the director of the Cognitive Computing and Intelligent Information Processing (CCIIP) Laboratory in the School of Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His research fields include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval, data mining(textual mining, social media analysis and mining), machine learning and recommendation system. During his PHD years, he was dedicated to research work at Microsoft Research Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and National University of Singapore successively. After obtaining doctorate in 2012, Dr. Wei started his postdoctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Singapore Management University respectively. He has been the reviewer sof major academic journals such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TC, ACM TIST, ACM TOIS, IEEE TASLP, Information Science, Pattern Recognition and Chinese Journal of Computers. Upon invitation, he.also serves as the EMNLP 2022 Area-Chair、SIGKDD 2021 Post-Chair、IJCAI 2021 Senior PC，IJCAI Novel Program Committee Board (2022-2024). Besides, Dr. Wei is a permanent member of many international committees on academic conference procedures, such as IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, SIGKDD, ENMLP, NAACL, CIKM, NLPCC, COLING, EACL and so on,

Dr. Wei is now a member of Association for Computing Machinery(ACM), a senior member of China Computer Federation and an executive committee member of its subordinate, the Technical Committee on Natural Language Processing. He also holds membership of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, and its subordinates, the Youth Working Committee and the Special Committee on Social Media Processing. Additionally, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence together with its subsidiaries, the Youth Working Committee and Special Committee on Social Computing and Social Intelligence grant Mr. Wei with membership. Working as a leading member, Mr. Wei played a key role in 1 project of the National High Technology Research and Development Program 863, another 2 projects project leadered by Media Development Authority of Singapore, and the Graphor project of Microsoft Research Asia. Till now, he has published more than 70 high-level academic conference papers and journal papers on world journals such as ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGKDD, SIGIR, WWW, SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, CVPR, ACM MM, CIKM, IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, IEEE T-CYB, ACM TWEB, IEEE TC, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) etc. Currently, he is leading quite a few key projects, namely 2 national natural science funds subjects(a general program and Youth Program), 1program of the "13th Five-Year" project(Co-PI), multiple national defense programs, 1 program of Hubei natural science foundation, 2 major horizontal projects of enterprises, CCF-Ant Fund and multiple horizontal projects of enterprises. The project funds amount to 18 million Yuan.

Academic Degrees

2008.9-2012.11

HuaZhong University of Science and Technology-Doctoral Degree in Engineering -Postgraduate (Doctoral)

2006.9-2008.6

HuaZhong University of Science and Technology-Master's Degree in Engineering-Postgraduate (Master's Degree)

2002.9-2006.6

China University of Geoscience, Undergraduate (Bachelor’s degree)

Professional Experience

2016.11-Now

Huazhong University of Science and Technology-- School of Computer Science and Technology-associate professor

2015.4-2016.10

Huazhong University of Science and Technology-School of Computer Science and Technology- lecturer

2014.6-2015.3

School of Information, Singapore Management University- Research Fellow

2012.11-2014.5

School of Information Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-Research Fellow

2011.6-2011.12

School of Computing , National University of Singapore-Visiting Student

2010.9-2011.3

School of Information Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-Research Assistant

2009.10-2010.6

Information Retrieval and Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia

Courses Taught

[1] Natural Language Processing, 2021/2022 (Undergraduate)

[2] Discrete Mathematics, 2020  (Undergraduate)

[3] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 2019/2020 (Undergraduate)

[4] Information Retrieval, 2018/2019/2020 /2021/2022 (Undergraduate)

[5] Principles of Computer Composition, 2018 (Undergraduate)

[6] Data Structure, 2015/2016/2017 (Undergraduate)

[7] Key Technology of Mobile Spatio - Temporal Database, 2016 (Doctor)

[8] Curriculum Design of Data Structure, 2016/2017 (Undergraduate)

[9] Big Data Processing

Awards and Honors

[1] 2021 Won the school level “ Excellent Head Teacher” of  Huazhong University of Science and Technology

[2] 2021 Won the “Huawei Award” for teachers

[3] 2020 ICKG 2020 Best Student Paper Award

[4] 2020 ICKG 2020 Best Student Paper Award

[5] 2017 Listed a member of the tenth batch of “3551 Guanggu Talent program”

[6] 2017 Won the school level “ Excellent Head Teacher” of  Huazhong University of Science and Technology

[7] 2016 Won the second prize in teaching competition of Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Selected Projects Funded

[1] 2021.10 - 2022.12, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Controllable Dialogue System Based on Expert Exerience ".

[2] 2021.09 - 2022.01, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Intelligent Document Analysis System ",.

[3] 2019.11 - 2020.03, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Intelligent Financial System ".

[4] 2019.11 - 2020.03, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Intelligent Recommendation",.

[5] 2019.01-2020.12, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Intelligent Information Fusion ".

[6] 2018.11 - 2019.03, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Natural Language Processing Tools",.

[7] 2018.11 - 2019.03, Principle Investigator (PI) of "Resume Parsing".

[8] 2017.09 - 201809  Principle Investigator (PI) of a joint Laboratory (named Hero) between Huazhong University of Sci. & Tec. and Ronglian Co, Ltd.

[9] 2017.01 - 2019.12, Principle Investigator (PI) of  "Topic-Specific Expert Finding in Social Network", NSFC Grant (Youth Program）

[10] 2016.01 - 2017.12, Principle Investigator (PI) of “Summarization of Community Question-Answering", National Natural Science Foundation of HuBei Province.

[11] 2016.01-2017.12 Principle Investigator (PI) of Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

[12] 2015.04 - 2018.04, HUST University Starup Grant.

Selected Publications

Professional Affiliations

[1] A senior member of China Computer Federation

[2] A member of the Youth Working Committee of Chinese Information Processing Society of China

[3] A member of the Youth Working Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence  

[4] A member of China Computer Federation/Chinese Information Processing Society of China/Association for Computing Machinery

Research Group

Enrollment Information

Our lab has sufficient research fund and quota for postgraduates (postgraduates will be provided with sound research environment and development opportunities)

Young teachers and post doctors, doctors, masters and undergraduate students dedicated to academic researches are welcome to join us.

We will provide for young teachers and post doctors: salary+allowance+research allowance(350k-450k)

Senior undergraduates are welcome to take internship at our lab. ( they will have the opportunities to be recommended to renowned universities and institutes in the U.S, Singapore, Australia,  and Microsoft Research Asia for PHD)

Contact us:weiw@hust.edu.cn

Personal Homepage

Chinese:/hust/mu_faculty/weiw/zh_CN/index.htm

English:https://www.eric-weiwei.com/