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Lei Chen (陈 磊)
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
(+852) 97053915 / (+86) 18205202979 (WeChat)

About Me (Curriculum Vitae)

Lei is now a first-year Ph.D. Student with the Department of Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) since Sept. 2022, supervised by Prof. Ruibang Luo.

Prior to that, he received his M.Eng. degree in Computer Technology at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) , also with the affiliation of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT, CAS), supervised by Prof. Min Yang.

His research interests lie in Bioinformatics, Natural Language Processing, Recommender Systems, etc.

He was so fortunate to have research internships at Representation Learning Lab, Westlake University under the supervision of Prof. Fajie Yuan, and WXG, Tencent with the 2021 Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Elite Training Program.

Selected Publications (Full List)

Tenrec: A Large-scale Multipurpose Benchmark Dataset for Recommender Systems
Guanghu Yuan, Fajie Yuan, Yudong Li, Beibei Kong, Shujie Li, Lei Chen, Min Yang, Chenyun Yu, Bo Hu, Zang Li, Yu Xu and Xiaohu Qie
NeurIPS 2022
Conference CCF A
Paper
Item-Provider Co-learning for Sequential Recommendation
Lei Chen, Jingtao Ding, Min Yang, Chengming Li, Chonggang Song and Lingling Yi
SIGIR 2022
Conference CCF A
Paper
User-specific Adaptive Fine-tuning for Cross-domain Recommendations
Lei Chen, Fajie Yuan, Jiaxi Yang, Xiangnan He, Chengming Li and Min Yang
TKDE, 2021
Journal CCF A
Paper
A User-Adaptive Layer Selection Framework for Very Deep Sequential Recommender Models
Lei Chen, Fajie Yuan, Jiaxi Yang, Xiang Ao, Chengming Li and Min Yang
AAAI 2021
Conference CCF A
Paper
Overview of the NLPCC 2020 Shared Task: Multi-Aspect-Based Multi-Sentiment Analysis (MAMS)
Lei Chen, Ruifeng Xu and Min Yang
NLPCC 2020
Conference CCF C
Paper
Knowledge-enhanced Hierarchical Attention for Community Question Answering with Multi-task and Adaptive Learning
Min Yang, Lei Chen, Xiaojun Chen, Qingyao Wu, Wei Zhou and Ying Shen
IJCAI 2019
Conference CCF A
Paper
A challenge dataset and effective models for aspect-based sentiment analysis
Qingnan Jiang, Lei Chen, Ruifeng Xu, Xiang Ao and Min Yang
EMNLP 2019
Conference CCF B
Paper

Educational Experiences

Ph.D. in Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong
Sept. 2022 - Present
M.Eng. in Computer Technology
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Mainland of China
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT, CAS)
Sept. 2019 - June. 2022
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Mainland of China
Sept. 2015 - June. 2019


Interning Experiences

Research Intern
WXG, Tencent
2021 Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Elite Training Program
Shenzhen, China
June. 2021 - June. 2022
Research Intern
Westlake University
Representation Learning Lab
Hangzhou, China
Apr. 2021 - Aug. 2021


Research Intern
SIAT, CAS
Shenzhen, China
Sept. 2018 - Aug. 2019


Academic Services

  • Reviewer of NeurIPS 2022, AAAI 2022, EMNLP 2022, COLING 2022, ACL 2021, EMNLP 2021, COLING 2020, etc.
  • Reviewer of Neurocomputing, Knowledge-based Systems, etc.
  • Organizer of NLPCC-2020 Shared Task: Multi-Aspect-based Multi-Sentiment Analysis (MAMS).
  • Volunteer of AAAI-2021 Student Volunteer Program.


    • Selected Awards

  • Breakthrough Progress Award, 2021 Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Elite Training Program, 2022
  • Dean Scholarship-Special Award, 2022
  • Dean Scholarship-Excellent Award, 2021
  • Pacemaker to Merit Student, 2022
  • Merit Student, 2021
  • Outstanding Graduate Thesis, 2022
  • National Scholarship, 2016
  • National Scholarship for Encouragement, 2018
  • The Zeng Xianzi Scholarship, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • The Sun Yueqi Excellent Student Award, 2017
  • The First Prize Scholarship, 2017
  • Outstanding Graduates, 2019

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