Wang Rui

Dr. Rui Wang is a computational linguist working as an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2021. Before that, he was a researcher (tenured in 2020) at Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from 2016 to 2020. His research interests are traditional linguistic based and cutting-edge deep learning based approaches for machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual NLP. He has published more than 40 papers in top-tier NLP/ML/AI conferences and journals, such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, TPAMI, TASLP, etc. He has also won several first places in top-tier MT/NLP shared tasks, such as WMT-2018, WMT-2019, WMT-2020, CoNLL-2019, etc. He served as the area chairs of ICLR-2021 and NAACL-2021. He gave cutting-edge tutorials at EACL-2021 and EMNLP-2021.