Biography

Haichao Zhu (朱海潮) works on Natural Language Processing, with research interests in machine reading comprehension, question answering, question generation, pre-trained language models, knowledge distillation, and text summarization. His research at Harbin Institute of Technology was under the direction of Prof. Bing Qin. He was a research intern in the Natural Language Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia, working with Dr. Furu Wei and Dr. Li Dong on machine reading comprehension and text summarization with data augmentation. Previously, he was a research intern in the Relevance and News Group at Microsoft Software Technology Center Asia, working with Dr. Furu Wei and Yongliang (Ryan) Ma on multiple-choice machine reading comprehension.

Haichao published research papers in NLP/AI conferences including ACL, EMNLP, and AAAI, and served as a reviewer for ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, AAAI, and IJCAI.

Experience

May 2017 – Feb. 2018

Microsoft Software Technology Center Asia

Research Intern · Relevance and News Group · Beijing

Worked with Dr. Furu Wei and Yongliang (Ryan) Ma on multiple-choice machine reading comprehension.

Projects

Research projects from my internships, alongside interactive experiments and tools.

Research internship · Microsoft Research Asia

Reading Comprehension & Summarization

Research on machine reading comprehension and text summarization with data augmentation, working with Furu Wei and Li Dong in the Natural Language Computing Group.

Reading comprehensionText summarizationData augmentation
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Research internship · Microsoft STCA

Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension

Research on multiple-choice machine reading comprehension in the Relevance and News Group, working with Furu Wei and Yongliang (Ryan) Ma.

Natural language processingReading comprehensionQuestion answering
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Interactive experiment

Pipeline Lab

Explore PP and VPP scheduling. Adjust micro-batches, model chunks, and compute times to see how the pipeline changes.

PP / VPPGPU timelinesdX / dW
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Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Machine Reading Comprehension, Open-Domain Question Answering, Question Generation, Pre-trained Language Models, Multimodality, and Knowledge Distillation.

Publications

Education

  • Sep. 2017 – June 2022, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology. Supervisor: Prof. Bing Qin
  • Sep. 2015 – June 2017, M.S. in Software Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. Supervisor: Prof. Bing Qin
  • Sep. 2010 – June 2014, B.E. in Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, AAAI, IJCAI, NLPCC
  • Volunteer: SMP 2018

Skills

  • Python, C, C++, Shell
  • PyTorch, TensorFlow
  • Linux, Docker, Git