Tsinghua Yaoban chendanqi won Sloan award! He is a classmate with last year's winner Ma Tengyu. His doctoral thesis is one of the hottest in the past decade

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The great God of Tsinghua Yaoban Chen Danqi , Just got the latest honor .

Sloan research award winner .

Sloan research award , There is always “ Nobel Prize weathervane ” The title of .

The researchers who won this award , Will be granted for a period of two years 75000 Dollar bonus .

before , Chen Danqi and Chen Danqi are both graduates of Yao class 、 Ma Tengyu , Both have attracted attention for winning this award .

Say back to Chen Danqi I am , It is one of the most concerned young Chinese scholars in the field of computer science .

She is 08 Class Yao alumni of Tsinghua University , She is also a legendary female contestant in the field of informatics ——CDQ Divide and conquer algorithm Is named after her .2008 year , She won a medal on behalf of the Chinese team IOI gold medal .

And her long 156 Ph. D. Thesis on page 《Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond》, It was even more popular .

Not only won the Stanford best Doctoral Thesis Award in that year , It has also become one of the most popular graduation theses of Stanford University in the past decade .

Now? , She has gone to Princeton University to rebuild NLP team , Become an assistant professor in the computer department of the University .

Build from scratch NLP team

The reason for this award , It is based on chendanqi's NLP Achievements and potential in the field .

At present, the research direction mainly focuses on two aspects .

One is to develop basic methods to learn language and knowledge representation , And the interaction between them . Especially two questions ： To human knowledge （ For example, declarative 、 Commonsense ） How to get... From text , And how intelligent systems represent 、 retrieval 、 Reasoning 、 Use this knowledge .

The other is to build a practical system , Including questions and answers 、 Information extraction and dialogue agent , Especially how to extend these methods to real scenes .

Among her team members , One of them is also a graduate of Tsinghua University ,2019 year Tsinghua prize winner Gao Tianyu .

The latest study , He was also involved .

This study proposes a new evaluation mechanism —— Problem rewriting mechanism based on prediction history , This mechanism can be better correlated with human judgments , Let the dialogue ask and answer （CQA） better .

Before coming to Princeton , She was a doctoral student at Stanford University , Learn from NLP A great god Christopher Manning.

This is a leading figure , He's Stanford NLP The founder of the group .

His books 《Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing》（ Statistical natural language processing ） and 《Introduction to Information Retrieval》（ Introduction to information retrieval ）, Almost every one NLPer A must read primer to .

stay Manning Under the guidance and study of the professor ,2014 In, she published an article 《A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser using Neural Networks》, It can be said to be a deep learning method of dependency analysis “ The work of the mountain ”.

Their method maintains accuracy , It directly improves the parsing speed 60 times .

And her influence in academia continues , The most typical one is the one written on the occasion of graduation 156 Page papers , Thousands of visits have been received just four days after the launch .

This thesis mainly focuses on neural reading comprehension , in short , It is a reading comprehension model based on deep neural network . It includes explaining the principle and building the model 、 And combining the existing achievements to build a practical application scenario .

Go to Stanford to worship NLP Under the master door , Then go to Princeton to build NLP team , Recall these two experiences , Chendanqi once explained the reason why she made the choice .

Chendanqi told the elder sister of the forked college that the official account ：

When I chose Stanford, I didn't really know what I was going to do , Later I chose research group Just set the direction .

I went to Princeton because I thought it was an opportunity for me , An opportunity for growth and commitment .

Because prin didn't NLP, We can build our own group.

The algorithm is named after her

Every time I mentioned Yaoban of Tsinghua University , The name of chendanqi must be indispensable .

In fact, looking back on her whole experience , Today's achievements are inseparable from her own efforts and the support of her surroundings .

She was born in Changsha, Hunan , High school student in Changsha Yali middle school .

This school is a strong school in the Olympic Games of informatics , Total in history 9 Students have obtained IOI（ The International Olympiad in informatics ） gold medal , Compared with “ The first school of Informatics competition ” Shaoxing No. 1 middle school, which is well-known, needs another one .

And chendanqi is 2008 year —— I won the third place in senior three 20 the IOI gold medal , It has also become the first gold medal female athlete in Hunan Province .

As a result, he was escorted to Yaoban, Tsinghua University , With Ma Tengyu 、 Yujiajun and others became classmates .

According to the report of Yali middle school , Chendanqi's father Qing Chen He is an associate professor in the Department of mathematics, National University of defense technology .

When Chen Danqi was very young, he found that his daughter was very sensitive to numbers , And the speed of doing questions 、 The comprehensiveness of thinking is better than that of children of the same age .

therefore , Her father consciously cultivated her ： She has been practicing Olympic mathematics since the third grade , On the first day of junior high school, I participated in the national mathematics league and won the second prize of Hunan division , The third day of junior high school won the special prize , And began to be exposed to informatics .

The Olympic Circle is familiar with “CDQ Divide and conquer algorithm ” It was the student bully who put forward it during the training , And named after her .

And the famous The plug DP, It is also the result of her training team .

Based on this tool , She also published a paper 《 Dynamic programming problem based on connectivity state compression 》.

It was reported at the time that , After studying , She is also very relaxed , My favorite 《 Detective Conan 》, I can also practice good running script .

It is also in this part of the Olympic journey , She met her future husband —— Yu Huacheng . He also showed a wave of love in his doctoral thesis .（ Manual formation ）

Um. , This is the handsome guy on the far right of the picture below .

Chendanqi said in the part of thanks , She from 15 year （ A freshman in high school ） I knew him , Four years from high school competition to Tsinghua University undergraduate course , Then we will go to Stanford to study for a doctor of computer science , Finally, I got married four months before my doctor graduated , Yuhuacheng has always been his best friend 、 The most admired person .

And yuhuacheng himself , It's also very powerful , During his doctoral study at Stanford University , Because he has published many important papers advance 2 Graduated in , Then he did postdoctoral research in Harvard University , Mainly about theoretical computer , Finally, he became an assistant professor at Princeton University .

In addition to these experiences , Chendanqi has also called on women to participate more in science and technology more than once 、 In the construction of computer science .

She was “ The elder sister of forkyard ” The interview said ：

Don't emphasize that girls are not good at engineering 、 The computer thing .

Between men and women GAP Will be less and less .

In the computer field, there are also many Chinese winners

This Sloan award consists of 118 The name comes from chemistry 、 mathematics 、 Physics 、 Scientists in fields such as computers have gained .

among , The computer field has been awarded 20 Global scientists , These include 5 Chinese , Among the Chinese winners , Most of them are alumni from Tsinghua University , Besides chendanqi, there are ：

07 Bachelor degree, Department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua University 、 present CMU assistant professor Fang Fei .

She graduated from the University of Southern California , His main research interests are game theory and machine learning .

03 Bachelor degree in automation, Tsinghua University 、 Master's degree in control science and engineering 、 present UCLA assistant professor Take care of all .

His research interests are statistical machine learning , The emphasis is on developing and analyzing nonconvex optimization algorithms for machine learning ,ICML 2021 He has 8 Papers were accepted .

Two other Chinese winners are ：

Hong Kong University of science and Technology Alumni song shuran , Now he is an assistant professor at Columbia University , It mainly studies computer vision and robot technology .

And now UIUC professor Li Bo, Her research interests are machine learning and its security 、 Privacy and game theory .

And outside the direction of Computer Science , This Sloan award includes 6 Chinese scholars won the mathematics award , among 2 The name comes from Peking University School of mathematics , have other 3 Won the physics prize .

Reference link ：
[1]https://sloan.org/fellowships/2022-Fellows
[2]https://antkillerfarm.github.io/dl/2018/01/17/Deep_Learning_31.html#%E6%A6%82%E5%86%B5
[3]https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gd576xb1833/thesis-augmented.pdf
[4]https://www.emnlp2014.org/papers/pdf/EMNLP2014082.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08812

[5]https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/q_IkEt3NhwtJIkKDr6OhNA