Services

Professional Services

  1. Vice President, Executive Committee for the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Jan. 2025-Present
  2. Chair, CIPS Large Model and Generation Committee, Jan. 2024-Present
  3. Chair, SIGHAN (Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jan. 2016-Dec. 2022
  4. Advisory Committee Member, International Steering Committee Member, Pacific Asia Series Conference on Language, Information and Computing, 2015-Present
  5. Vice President, COLIPS: The Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society, Singapore, 2011-2013
  6. Executive Committee Member/CLC Chair, AFNLP: The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2013-2016, 2022-2023
  7. Executive Director, Chair of the Machine Translation Committee, Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS), 2016-2020
  8. Council Member, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), 2016-2019
  9. President, The Society of Computer of Suzhou, 2017-2021
  10. Chair, CCF Suzhou, 2018-2022
  11. Council Member, the 12th Council of China Computer Federation (CCF), 2020- 2023
  12. Adjunct Professor (2005-2021), Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor (2011-2021), Harbin Institute of Technology
  13. Adjunct Professor (2019-Present), Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor (2019-Present), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  14. Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor (2007-2016), National University of Singapore
  15. Visiting Researcher (2018), Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor (2019-Present), Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  16. Adjunct Professor (2016-Present), Beijing Information Science and Technology University
  17. Evaluation Expert for National Key Laboratories in Information Technology (2017, 2022)
  18. Review Panelist, Information Sciences Department, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2015-Present)
  19. Review Panelist, Key Research and Development Program, Ministry of Science and Technology (2018-Present)
  20. National Award Review Expert (2020)
  21. Ministry of Education Award Reviewer (2021, 2022)
  22. Expert Committee Member, China Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, 2017-Present
  23. Chair of Academic Committee, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, 2022-Present
  24. Academic Committee Member, Multi-Language Collaborative Translation National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory, 2022-Present
  25. Academic Committee Member, Beijing Key Laboratory of Big Data Management and Analysis Methods (Renmin University of China), 2018-Present
  26. Academic Committee Member, Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Ministry of Education, 2018-Present
  27. Academic Committee Member, Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (Hainan University), 2018-Present
  28. Academic Committee Member, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Information Processing (Soochow University), 2018-Present
  29. Academic Committee Member, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low-Resource Language Intelligent Processing (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), 2019-Present
  30. Academic Committee Member, Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Hainan University, 2018-Present
  31. Academic Committee Member, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Soochow University, 2018-Present
  32. Member of the Project Advisory Expert Group, Ministry of Science and Technology Key R&D Program Project “Research on Novel Cross-Chain Architecture Supporting Heterogeneous Multi-Chain Interoperability” (Grant No. 2020YFB1005600)
  33. Member of the Project Advisory Expert Group, Ministry of Science and Technology Key R&D Program “Next Generation Artificial Intelligence” Major Project “Intelligent Analysis and Reasoning for Cross-Media Content Management” (Grant No. 2018AAA0102000)

Journal Editorial Board Member

  1. Senior Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE T-ASLP), Dec. 2025-Present
  2. Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE/ACM T-ASLP), Jan. 2015-Dec. 2020
  3. Editorial Board Member, Computational Linguistics, Jan. 2021-Present
  4. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Jan. 2019-Dec. 2023
  5. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Jan. 2021-Present
  6. Editorial Board Member, SCIENCE CHINA: Information Sciences, Jan. 2018-Dec. 2023
  7. Editorial Board Member, Machine Intelligence Research, Dec. 2021-Present
  8. Editorial Board Member, Electronics, Nov. 2022-Dec. 2023
  9. Editorial Board Member, SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, Jan. 2018-Dec. 2023
  10. Area Editor, China Journal of Software, Jan. 2019-Present
  11. Editorial Board Member, Acta Automatica Sinica, Jan. 2015-Dec. 2023
  12. Editorial Board Member, Communication of CCF (CCCF), Jan. 2019-Mar. 2021
  13. Editorial Board Member, Book Series of the Artificial Intelligence Publishing Project (Electronic Industry Press, National Publishing Fund Project), 2020-Present

Conference Services

  1. General Chair/Co-Chair:
    a). The 4th National Large Model Intelligent Generation Conference (LMG 2025), Chengdu, 1-3 Nov. 2025
    b). The 3rd National Large Model Intelligent Generation (LMG 2024), Jiaxing, 29 Nov.-1 Dec. 2024
    c). The 19th China Conference on Machine Translation (CCMT 2023), Jinan, 19-21 Oct. 2023
    d). The 2nd Conference on Natural Language Generation and Intelligent Writing (NLGIW 2023), Urumqi, 19-20 Jul. 2023
    e). The 38th CCF National Conference on Computer Applications (CCF NCCA 2023) and the 2023 Academic Conference on AI+ Applications, Suzhou, 16-19 Jul. 2023
    f). The 20th International Conference on Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2019), Beijing, 28-30 Jun. 2019
    g). The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2018), Hong Kong, 1-3 Nov. 2018
    h). The 5th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing and the 24th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016), Kunming, 2-6 Dec. 2016
    i). The 20th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2016), Urumqi, 25-26 Aug. 2016
    j). The 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2013), Singapore, 9-11 Dec. 2013
    k). The International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2013 (IALP 2013), Urumqi, 17-19 Aug. 2013

  2. Program Committee Chair / Co‑chair:
    a). The 26th Annual Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology and the 12th “Microprocessor Technology” Forum, Suzhou, 18-19 Aug. 2022
    b). The Future Computer Education Summit 2022 (FCES 2022), Suzhou, 22-23 Jul. 2022
    c). The 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP 2020), Suzhou, 4-7 Dec. 2020
    d) The China National Computer Congress 2019 (CNCC 2019), Suzhou, 17-19 Oct. 2019
    e). Suzhou Computer Conference 2019, Suzhou, 6 Jan. 2019
    f). The 8th China Intelligent Industry Summit (CIIS 2018), Chengdu, 17-18 Nov. 2018
    g). The 7th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2018), Hohhot, 26-30 Aug. 2018
    h). The 14th China Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2015), Guangzhou, 13-14 Nov. 2015
    i). The 3rd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CIPS-SIGHAN 2014), Wuhan/China, 20-21 Oct. 2014
    j). The 9th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2013), Kunming, 31 Oct.-1 Nov. 2013
    k). The 12th China Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2013), Suzhou, 9-10 Oct. 2013
    l). The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 2010), Sendai, 5-7 Nov. 2010
    m). The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2012), Jeju, 8-14 Jul. 2012
    n). The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2011), Chiang Mai, 7-13 Nov. 2011
    o). The 46th CCF Advanced Disciplines Lecture (CCF ADL): Big Data-Oriented Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Chongqing, 15-17 Nov. 2013

  3. Area Chair:
    a). Natural Language Processing Area, The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), Montreal, 21-26 Aug. 2021
    b). NLP Application Track (SAC), The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), Bangkok, 1-6 Aug. 2021
    c). Textual Inference and Question Answering Track, The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Barcelona, 8-13 Dec. 2020
    d). Machine Translation and Multilinguality Track, The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015), Beijing, 26-31 Jul. 2015
    e). Machine Translation and Multilinguality Track, The 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisboa, 17-21 Sep. 2015
    f). Panel Chair, The 4th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2015), Nanchang, 9-13 Oct. 2015
    g). The 5th International Joint Conference on NLP (IJCNLP 2011), Chiang Mai, 7-13 Nov. 2011

Invited Talks and Tutorials

  1. Invited Talk: Language-Centric Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective, Turing Award Laureate Richard Sutton’s Lecture Forum at Soochow University, Suzhou, 28 Nov. 2025
  2. Invited Talk: Development Strategy for Next-Generation AI Centered on Natural Language, 2025 Symposium on Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Shenzhen, 15-16 Nov. 2025
  3. Invited Talk: Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence Centered on Natural Language, Strategic Workshop of the CCF Technical Committee on Natural Language Processing, Suzhou, 8 Nov. 2025
  4. Invited Talk: From Perceptual Intelligence to Cognitive Intelligence: Co-evolution of Large Models and Reinforcement Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Reasoning Forum of the China National Computer Congress (CNCC), Harbin, 22-25 Oct. 2025
  5. Invited Talk: From Translation Tools to Cultural Bridges: Multilingual Technologies for Cultural Communication, Sub-forum on Culture and Technology Integration, Forum on Building up China’s Cultural Strength, 27 May 2025
  6. Invited Talk: Artificial Intelligence: From the Information World to the Physical World, The 10th National Conference on Intelligent Information Processing and the 10th Symposium on Formal Concept Analysis and Granular Computing, Guangzhou, 16-18 May 2025
  7. Invited Talk: Enhancing General Capabilities of Large Language Models and Multimodal Models and Their Applications in Embodied Intelligence, The 12th China National Conference on Social Media Processing (SMP 2024), Xinxiang, 10-13 Oct. 2024
  8. Invited Talk: Exploration of Language-Centric Multimodal Large Models and Artificial Intelligence, The 9th Summit on Language and Intelligence, 25 Aug. 2024
  9. Keynote Speech: Large Models and Embodied Intelligence, The 3rd Forum on Intelligent Decision-Making, Beijing, 13-14 Apr. 2024
  10. Invited Talk: Pre-trained Large Model Technologies, 50th Anniversary Academic Lecture Series of the Computer Science and Technology Program at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 27 Jun. 2023
  11. Keynote Speech: Towards Improved Neural Machine Translation and Large Model-based Machine Translation, The 19th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2023), Macao, 4-8 Sep. 2023
  12. Invited Talk: Large Model Technologies, The 11th Cyberspace Intelligent Search and Future Data Summit Forum, Beijing, 6-7 Jul. 2023
  13. Invited Talk: Large Models and Operating Systems, Workshop on Software-Defined Next-Generation Operating Systems, Dongguan, 13-14 May 2023
  14. Invited Talk: AGI: A Perspective from Large Model Technologies, The 3rd National Conference on Key Technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Wuhu, 1-2 Apr. 2023
  15. Invited Talk: General Artificial Intelligence Driven by Text-based Large Models, Department of Planning, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Beijing, 16 Mar. 2023
  16. Invited Talk: Language Intelligence and Machine Translation (Twelve Open Problems in NLP after ChatGPT), The 4th OpenI/O Enlightenment Developer Conference, Shenzhen, 24 Feb. 2023
  17. Invited Talk (Moderator): Technical Insights and Prospects of ChatGPT, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Online, 16 Feb. 2023
  18. Invited Talk: Discourse Analysis and Document-level Machine Translation, 2022 Summit Forum on AI-Enabled Enterprise Applications, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) & Huawei, Shenzhen, 6 Dec. 2022
  19. Invited Talk: Intent Understanding, China National Computer Congress 2022 (CNCC 2022) Forum on “User-Centric Ubiquitous Operating Systems”, 18 Nov.2022
  20. Invited Talk: R-Drop and Adaptive Conditional Masked Language Models (CMLM), Symposium on Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Big Data, Taizhou, 5 Nov. 2022
  21. Invited Talk: On Grant Proposal Writing, Zhengzhou University, 4 Nov. 2022
  22. Invited Talk: On Stochasticity in Sequence Generation Models and Stroke-based Chinese NLP, Tsinghua AI+BI Forum, 19 Oct. 2022
  23. Invited Talk: Stochasticity in Sequence Generation Models, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 6 Sep. 2022
  24. Invited Talk: Knowledge Computing from the Perspective of NLP Development, Huawei Cloud Knowledge Computing Launch Event, Hangzhou (Online), 6 Jun. 2022
  25. Invited Talk: On Stochasticity in Sequence Generation Models, Peking University NLP Day Workshop, Beijing (Online), 3 Jun. 2022
  26. Invited Talk: NLP Research and the Development of Young Talent, The 19th Symposium for Young Scholars in Natural Language Processing, Taiyuan (Online), 28-29 May 2022
  27. Invited Talk: Document-level Neural Machine Translation, The 3rd Huawei Machine Translation Forum, Online, 13 Dec. 2021
  28. Invited Talk: The State and Future of Natural Language Processing, The 5th Forum on Big Data and Its Applications, Guilin, 15 Oct. 2021
  29. Invited Talk: Document-level Neural Machine Translation, Expert Lecture Series on Digital Technology Innovation and Development (Hosted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Organized by China Electronics Corporation), AI Sub-forum, Beijing, 31 Jul. 2021
  30. Invited Talk: Document-level Neural Machine Translation, NLP Understanding Forum of the Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (GAITC 2021), Hangzhou, 6 Jun. 2021
  31. Invited Talk: Discourse Analysis and Document-level Machine Translation, Huawei Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series, Nanjing, 20 May 2021
  32. Invited Talk: Advances and Future Challenges in Natural Language Processing, Annual Conference of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS 2020), Beijing, 27 Dec. 2020
  33. Invited Talk: Past, Present, and Future of Natural Language Processing, NLP Forum of the Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (CAAI-GAITC 2020), Hangzhou, 26 Jul. 2020
  34. Invited Talk: Closed-Door Session on “Artificial Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing”, World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Shanghai, 9-11 Jul. 2020
  35. Invited Talk: Natural Language Processing, Huawei Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series, Huawei Nanjing Research Institute, Nanjing, 28 Nov. 2019
  36. Invited Talk: Language Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Forum, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 20 Nov. 2019
  37. Invited Talk: Evaluation of Computer Science Disciplines, Workshop on Computer Science Discipline Evaluation at Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 7-8 Sep. 2019
  38. Invited Talk: Advances and Industrial Applications of Natural Language Processing, “Understanding Language, Embracing Intelligence” Forum, World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Shanghai, 29-31 Aug. 2019
  39. Invited Talk: Natural Language Processing Technologies and Applications, Summit on Language Intelligence, Beijing Language and Culture University, 15 Jun. 2019
  40. Invited Talk: The Progress of NLP, Frontier and Applications Forum on NLP Technologies, Global AI Product and Application Expo 2019, Suzhou, 9-11 May 2019
  41. Invited Talk: Sentiment, Aspect, and Stance Analysis, NExT+ Workshop 2019, Singapore, 25-26 Apr. 2019
  42. Invited Talk: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) Intelligence Forum 2019, NUDT, 23-24 Feb. 2019
  43. Invited Talk: Sentiment Analysis for Question Answering, International Conference on Data Science (ICDS 2018), Fudan University, Shanghai, 16-18 Dec. 2018
  44. Invited Talk: Methods and Applications of Natural Language Processing, Chinese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCAI 2018), Shenzhen, 27-29 Jul. 2018
  45. Invited Talk: Natural Language Processing in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, Shuangqing Forum No. 194 on “Fundamental Theories and Applications of Artificial Intelligence”, Changsha, 2-3 Dec. 2017
  46. Invited Talk: Deep Learning for NLP and Machine Translation, China Conference on Intelligent Technology and Big Data 2017, Guangzhou, 16-17 Sep. 2017
  47. Invited Talk: Frontiers of Natural Language Processing, Tutorial Invited Talk at the CCF Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2017, Kunming, 5-6 Aug. 2017
  48. Invited Talk: Deep Learning for Natural Language Understanding and Machine Translation, National Conference on Deep Learning Technology 2017 (Hosted by the Chinese Institute of Electronics), Beijing, 24-25 Mar. 2017
  49. Invited Talk: Challenges and Perspectives on Machine Translation and NLP in the Era of Big Data, International Conference on Data Science (ICDS 2016), Shanghai, 16-19 Dec.2016
  50. Invited Talk: Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, and Natural Language Understanding, Workshop on Intelligence Analysis and Knowledge System Construction, Shanghai, 19 Nov. 2016
  51. Invited Talk: Problems and Innovations in Natural Language Understanding and Machine Translation, CAST Academic Salon on New Concepts and Theories No. 113: “Artificial Intelligence: Problems and Innovations”, Hefei, 24-25 Sep. 2016
  52. Invited Talk: Evaluation and Development of Computer Science Disciplines, Symposium on World-Class Discipline Development, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 4-5 Jun. 2016
  53. Invited Talk: Semantics, Discourse, and Machine Translation, The 11th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2015), Hefei, 24-25 Sep. 2015
  54. Invited Talk: Discourse and Statistical Machine Translation, The 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN 2015), Beijing, 30-31 Jul. 2015
  55. Tutorial: Semantics, Discourse, and Machine Translation, The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, 22-27 Jun. 2014
  56. Tutorial: Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future, The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), Dublin, 23-29 Aug. 2014
  57. Tutorial: Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future, The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013), Nagoya, 14-18 Oct. 2013
  58. Invited Talk: Word Sense Induction for Machine Translation, The 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28), Phuket, Thailand, 12-14 Dec. 2014
  59. Keynote Speech: Semantics, Discourse, and Machine Translation, The 18th International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2014), Kuching, Malaysia, 20-22 Oct. 2014
  60. Invited Talk: Discourse and Machine Translation, The 2nd CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLP&CC 2013), Chongqing, 15-19 Oct. 2013
  61. Tutorial Lecture: Machine Translation and Multilingual Understanding, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning: Theory, Methods, and Applications, The 32nd CCF Advanced Discipline Lectures (CCF ADL), Beijing, 31 Oct.-2 Nov. 2012
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