Zaiqiao Meng

Zaiqiao Meng

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

University of Glasgow

Biography

I am currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of the University of Glasgow, based within the world-leading Information Retrieval Group and IDA section of School of Computing Science. I am also an Affiliated Lecturer at the Language Technology Lab (LTL) of University of Cambridge. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Associate) at the Language Technology Lab (LTL) of the University of Cambridge; and a Postdoctoral Researcher (Research Assistant) at the Information Retrieval group of the University of Glasgow.

I am current leading a small research team consisting of PhDs, masters and undergrad students working on Natural Language Processing (particularly ChatGPT), Knowledge Extraction, Representation & Reasoning Learning (particularly some BioMedical applications). Students who are interested in working with me, or want to do your PhD with me, please read this post for some information.

Interests
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Knowledge Graph
  • Geometric Deep Learning
  • Recommender Systems
  • AI for Science
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2018

    Sun Yat-sen University

News

  • 2023-06-26: Invited to serve as one of the Area Chairs for the track “Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP” of EMNLP 2023.

  • 2023-06-09: I gave an invited talk on “Probing and Infusing Biomedical Knowledge for Pre-trained Language Models” in “NLP for Social Good (NSG) Symposium 2023” hosted by Dr Procheta Sen at the University of Liverpool.

  • 2023-05-22: One paper was accepted by Matching ACL 2023 on Generative Event Extraction.

  • 2023-05-02: One paper was accepted by ACL 2023 on Few-shot NER.

  • 2023-03-02: One paper was accepted by Transactions on the Web (TWEB) on Conversational Recommendation Systems.

  • 2023-02-10: I gave a guest lecture on “Words Sense and WordNet” for the “LI18 - Computational Linguistics” course offered by Professor Nigel Collier at the University of Cambridge.

  • 2023-01-24: I am an Area Chair for the “Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP” track of ACL 2023.

  • 2023-01-21: One paper was accepted by EACL 2023 on Deductive Reasoning Analysis of Pretrained models. The preprint of it can be found in this link.

  • 2022-10-25: I will be attending EMNLP 2022 (Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪) in person.

  • 2022-10-06: One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2022 on Parameter-Efficient Tuning.

  • 2022-10-04: Our paper entitled Graph Neural Pre-training for Recommendation with Side Information was accepted at ACM TOIS.

  • 2022-09-19: Our paper entitled Enhancing Conversational Recommendation Systems with Representation Fusion was accepted at ACM TWEB.

  • 2022-09-02: Given a short talk University of Glasgow Computational Biology Conference on topic of Biomedical knowledge probing and infusing with pretrained language models.

  • 2022-07-12: One paper entitled Dynamic Co-embedding Model for Temporal Attributed Networks was accepted at IEEE TNNLS.

Current Members

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Gan Wang

University of Glasgow

PhD student (2023.10 - )

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Jinyuan Fang

University of Glasgow

PhD student (2022.11 - )

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Meiru Zhang

University of Cambridge

PhD student (2021.10 - )

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William Traynor

University of Glasgow

BSc/MSc student (2022.10 - )

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Xi Zhang

University of Glasgow

PhD student (2023.10 - )

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Xinhao Yi

University of Glasgow

PhD student (2023.10 - )

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Zhaohan Meng

University of Glasgow

BSc/MSc student (2022.7 - )

Past Lab Members

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Adam Fairlie

University of Glasgow

BSc/MSc student (2022.09 - 2023.01)

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Anmol Kumar

University of Glasgow

BSc/MSc student (2022.6 - 2022.9) Now Engineer@Extend Robotics

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Giacomo Frisoni

University of Bologna

Visiting PhD (2022.9 - 2022.12)

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Varsha Joshy

University of Glasgow

BSc/MSc student (2022.6 - 2022.9) Now Senior Software Engineer at JPMC

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Xinhao Yi

University of Glasgow

BSc/MSc student (2022.6 - 2023.10) Now PhD at University of Glasgow

Projects

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Beta-RecSys
An open source project for Building, Evaluating and Tuning Automated Recommender Systems.
Beta-RecSys
BioCaster
Alerting of disease outbreaks from global news media!
BioCaster

Professional Service

Conference Area Chair/Senior Program Committee:

  • The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
  • The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023

Conference Program Committee/Reviewer:

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022, 2023
  • ACL Rolling Review, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2018, 2021, 2022
  • The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2023
  • The ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017, 2018
  • The ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2018, 2019
  • The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021, 2022
  • The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • The ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys), 2020, 2021, 2022
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018, 2020, 2022
  • The SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2022

Journal Editor/Guest Editor:

  • Special Issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292) journal on “Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval”.

Journal Invited Reviewer:

  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • ACM Transactions on the Web
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • Information Sciences
  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • IEEE Access
  • International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

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