Jing Li 李菁

Assistant Professor
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Address
PQ 714, Mong Man Wai Building
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR, China

Email
jing-amelia.li [AT] polyu [DOT] edu [DOT] hk

  
News

  • [NEW] Our recent benchmark YesBut about humorous contradition understanding was accepted at NeurIPS 2024 for oral presentation. Congratulations to Zhe! [Paper] [Project] [Github] [Hugging Face]
  • [NEW] Our recent research work AnglE for angle-optimized text embeddings was published at ACL 2024 and achieved over 1 million downloads on Hugging Face last month (over 5 million downloads in under a year). Congrats to Xianming, and thanks to the Hugging Face team! [Paper] [Github] [Hugging Face].
  • [NEW] Our recent research work with SUSTech, LLM4Decompile, for Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models was published at EMNLP 2024 and achieved over 3.2k stars (☆) on Github. Congrats to Hanzhuo! [Paper] [Github].
  • [NEW] Congratulations to the establishment of PolyU Embodied Artificial Intelligence Lab under PolyU COMP.
  • I'm excited to work with a wonderful team of research students and staff! Drop me your CV if you are interested in joining our team as a PhD/Research Associate/Research Assistant/Post-doc. I may not be able to reply all emails (but I do read them).!

    • Biography

    Dr. Jing Li is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) since 2019. She established and currently leads the PolyU Embodied Artificial Intelligence Lab under PolyU-COMP, and is a member of Research Centre of Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (RC-DSAI). Before joining PolyU, she worked in the Natural Language Processing Center, Tencent AI Lab as a senior researcher from 2017 to 2019. Jing obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017 under supervision of Professor Kam-Fai Wong. Before that, she received her B.S. degree from Department of Machine Intelligence, Peking University in 2013. Jing has broad research interests on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Social Science (CSS), and Machine Learning (ML). Particularly, she researches novel algorithms for language representation learning, social media language understanding, conversational and social interaction modeling, and language grounding for human-centered applications. The mission of her research is to make NLP models more human-like, with a human-centered focus on understanding humans, communicating with humans, and coexisting with humans in society.

    Research Topics

    • Pre-training and Language Representation Learning
    • Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for Social Media Contents
    • Human-Centered Natural Language Processing (NLP)
    • Large Language Models for Embodied Agents
    Selected Projects (as PI/PC)

    • Aug 2024 - Jul 2029: PolyU Embodied Artificial Intelligence Lab. Gift Fund from Boyushenhang.
    • Jul 2024 - Jun 2026: Simultaneous Translation for Multilingual Meetings. Gift Fund from Microware (Co-PIs: Dr. Jibin Wu and Dr. Yancheng Yuan)
    • Jun 2024 - May 2025: Socially-Aligned Large Language Model and Its Applications. Gift Fund from Huawei.
    • Apr 2023 - Apr 2026: AI-Care: A Multimodal Financial Assistant for the Visually Impaired. ITF (Innovation Technology Fund).
    • Jul 2022 - Mar 2024: NLP-Enhanced STEM Education for Hong Kong Adolescents: A Trial Study on Secondary School Students. Gift Fund from HCL.
    • Mar 2022 - Feb 2023: Knowledge-Enhanced Automatic Essay Grading Research. Gift Fund from Zhongjiaoyunzhi.
    • Jan 2022 - Dec 2024: Social-Transformers: A Deep Pre-training Framework for Social Media Language Understanding. RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS).
    • July 2021 - June 2022: Development of a 3-hour Online Programme on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. PolyU Internal Fund under Freshman Seminar for the Online Teaching Development and Educational Research Grant (Co-PI: Dr. Richard Lui). Feel free to explore the AIDA Interactive Playground (only for internal use of PolyU students)!
    • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022: Pre-training Methods for Short Texts. CCF-Baidu Open Fund.
    • Jan 2021 - Dec 2021: Comment-Aware Weakly-Supervised Classification for Social Media Texts. CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Young Faculty Open Research Fund.
    • Jan 2021 - Dec 2023: Characterize, Detect, and Neutralize: Context-Aware Computational Methods for Media Bias on Social Platforms. NSFC (Young Scientists Fund).
    • Oct 2019 - Sep 2022: Discourse Parsing for Online Conversations. PolyU Internal Fund.

    Selected Publications

    [Google Scholar]

    Academic Experience

    Research Experience
    • Visiting PhD at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, Jan - Apr, 2016, Supervisor: Prof. Yulan He (Now with King's College London.)
    • Visiting PhD at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Feb - May, 2017, Supervisor: Prof. Lu Wang (Now with University of Michigan.)
    Organization Committee Member:
    • 2024: ACL (D&I), LREC-COLING (sponsorship), NLPCC (tutorial), EMNLP (Internal Communication)
    • 2023: NLPCC (student workshop), EMNLP (D&I)
    • 2022: AACL (D&I)
    • 2021: ACL-IJCNLP (sponsroship), NLPCC (publicity)
    • 2020: EMNLP (publication/findings), ICONIP (tutorial)
    Programme Committee Member (including area chairs and senior members):
    • 2025: NAACL (Senior Area Chair)
    • 2024: NAACL (area chair), ACL (area chair), LREC-COLING (area chair), NLPCC (area achair), IJCAI
    • 2023: EACL, AAAI (senior member), ICASSP (meta reviewer), ACL (area chair), EMNLP (area chair)
    • 2022: ACL (area chair), ICASSP (meta reviewer), AAAI, EMNLP.
    • 2021: ACL (area chair), IJCAI (senior member), CCL (area chair), AAAI, EACL, NAACL
    • 2020: AAAI, ACL, ICONIP (senior member)
    • 2019: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI
    • 2018: ACL and EMNLP (Best reviewer award in EMNLP 2018)
    • 2017: EACL and EMNLP
    • 2016: EMNLP
    • 2015: EMNLP
    Reviewer
    • CL: Sep 2024 - now.
    • TACL: July 2021 - now.
    • ACL Rolling Review (action edtior/area chair).

    Teaching Experience

    Faculty of Engineering Merit Award in Teaching 2023 (Team award as team leader with Dr. Richard Lui)
    • Spring 2025: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics (co-teaching)
    • Fall 2024: [COMP5423] Natural Language Processing
    • Spring 2024: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics (co-teaching)
    • Spring 2024: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics (co-teaching)
    • Fall 2023: [COMP5423] Natural Language Processing
    • Spring 2023: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics (co-teaching)
    • Spring 2023: [COMP1004] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (co-teaching)
    • Fall 2022: [COMP1004] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (co-teaching)
    • Spring 2022: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics
    • Spring 2021: [FH6051] Computational Linguistics (co-teaching)
    • Spring 2021: [COMP5511] Artifical Intelligence Concepts
    • Spring 2021: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics
    • Spring 2020: [COMP1433] Introduction to Data Analytics
    • Fall 2019: [COMP6701] Advanced Topics in Computer Algorithms (co-teaching)
    • Fall 2019: [COMP4122] Game Design and Development (co-teaching)
    Advisees

    Research Students and Staffs at PolyU
    Alumni at PolyU:
    Previous Intern Students at Tencent:
    • Yingyi Zhang, PhD student from NJUST. Oct 2017 - May 2018. Publications: [NAACL 2018] [JASIST 2019]. Now a Lecturer at Soochow University.
    • Jichuan Zeng, PhD student from CUHK. Dec 2017 - Aug 2019. Publications: [EMNLP 2018 ] [TACL 2019] [WWW 2020]. Now a senior research engineer at ByteDance.
    • Yue Wang, PhD student from CUHK. May 2018 - Aug 2019. Publications: [NAACL 2019] [ ACL 2019] [EMNLP 2020]. Now a senior research scientist at Salesforce.
    • Lu Ji, Master student from Fudan. Apr - Aug 2019. Publication: [NAACL 2021]. Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program. Now an engineer at Pinduoduo.
    • Ming Liao, PhD student from CUHK. May - Sep 2018. Publication: [EMNLP 2019]. Now a Postdoc Fellow at PolyU.
    • Xiaoxue Liu, Master student from Nanjing University. May - Sep 2018. Now an engineer at Tencent.
    Other Student Collaborators