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Basics

Name Qiang Ning
Label AI Scientist
Email {fullname}.01@gmail.com
Url https://www.qiangning.info/
Summary An AI scientist with a passion for building scalable and efficient AI systems.

Work

  • 2024 - Now
    Quantitative Researcher
    Jump Trading
    Alpha research using LLMs and AI
  • 2022 - 2024
    Science Manager
    Amazon - AWS AI
    Science Manager for Titan LLM and Bedrock Guardrails
    • LLMs
    • Bedrock
    • RLHF
    • Safety
  • 2020 - 2022
    Senior Applied Scientist
    Amazon - Alexa AI
    Science lead and single-threaded owner on the question understanding initiative to improve Alexa’s open-domain QA experience.
    • Question answering
    • NLP
  • 2019 - 2020
    Research Scientist
    Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
    Doing research on event understanding, data collection, and transfer learning
    • Event understanding
    • Data collection
  • 2017 - 2017
    Intern
    Facebook
    Launched two ads-related products with a combined improvement of 1.1% in revenue
    • ML
    • Ads
  • 2012 - 2012
    Intern
    Microsoft Research Asia
    I carried out feasibility test for indoor localization and map reconstruction via Wi-Fi fingerprinting.
    • Embedded systems
    • Android

Education

  • 2017 - 2019

    Philadelphia, PA

    Visiting Ph.D.
    University of Pennsylvania
    Computer Science
  • 2016 - 2019

    Urbana, IL

    Ph.D.
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Computer Science
    • Machine Learning
    • Natural Language Processing
  • 2013 - 2016

    Urbana, IL

    M.S.
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Signal Processing
    • Brain Imaging
  • 2012 - 2012

    Los Angeles, CA

    Summer exchange
    University of Southern California
    Computer Science
  • 2010 - 2013

    Beijing, China

    B.A.
    Tsinghua University
    Economics
  • 2009 - 2013

    Beijing, China

    B.S.
    Tsinghua University
    Electronical Engineering

Awards

Service

Track Chair
NAACL Demo track 2022
Area chair
ACL 2021-now
NAACL 2021-now
EMNLP 2021-now
ACL Rolling Review 2021-now
AAAI 2023-now
NeurIPS 2023-now
ICLR 2024-now
Journal Reviewer
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE)
Neurocomputing Journal
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME); not active in this field anymore
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRM); not active in this field anymore
Conference Reviewer
*ACL
EMNLP
AAAI
COLING
LREC
ECIR
NLPCC
Teaching Assistant
Machine Learning (CS446), Spring 2017
Introduction to Computing (ECE120), Fall 2016