I received my B.Sc. from the CS Department at Beijing 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 have two children and find the cliche totally true: Being a parent is the hardest job in the world, but it is also the most rewarding one. I love travelling, but am terrible at directions and get lost all the time. I love music, and my favoriate composers are Beethoven, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky. I never get bored as long as I have my laptop. I love novels, and wrote a couple a few years ago. My dream vacation is a combination of all these: after a long day of hiking and sightseeing with the family in a foreign country, I come back to my hotel, put the kids to bed, turn on my laptop, and work on a novel that takes forever to complete while listening to the music from my playlist at youtube.