I am
an Associate Professor at the
Linguistics Department of the
University of Washington. Many of my students come from our
CLMS program, and our CompLing lab is called the Treehouse. Before joining UW in 2005, I was a Research
Staff Member at the IBM T. J.
Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York.
I received my B.Sc. from the CS Department at Peking University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the CIS Department at the University of Pennsylvania. My thesis advisors were Drs. Martha Palmer and Aravind Joshi. At UPenn, I was the team leader of the Chinese Treebank Project and a team member of the XTAG Project. My dissertation is here.
My research area is computational linguistics. My current research is outlined here.
On a personal note, I am married with two children. I am not a Tiger Mom. I am more like a Fox Mom, as in an old Japanese movie called “the story of the fox”. Being a good parent is definitely not easy and I am still learning after all these years.
As for my hobbies, in addition to music and novels, I love to travel. I have
been to 20+ countries and usually visit two or three new countries each year. My
favorite experience so far includes Charles Bridge at Prague, Pergamon Museum at Berlin, boat hopping at Stockholm,
pre-historical temples in Malta, piazzas/basilicas/ice cream at Rome, walking
in Pompeii, ancient sites at Athens/Olympia/Delphi, desert bash at Dubai, backwater
boat trip at Kochi, Loi Kratong
Festival in Chiang Mai, and Cu Chi Tunnel near Saigon.
I have never been to Africa or South Americas. At the top of my to-do list are Machu Picchu in Peru, Amazon Rainforest, Kruger National Park in South Africa, Petra in Jordan, Truva/Bergama/Ephesus in Turkey, Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, and many more.
Last modified on 01/04/2012