Dr. Kewei Tu is a full professor and vice dean of the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, China. He received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China and received a PhD degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Departments of Statistics and Computer Science of the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His research lies in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in general, with a current focus on improving, innovating and interpreting transformer architectures and large language models from the perspective of linguistic structures. He has more than 100 publications in major conferences and journals including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, etc. He served as a PC member or (senior) area chair at many top conferences in NLP and AI. He received an outstanding paper award at ACL 2023, two best system paper awards at SemEval 2022 and 2023, and best paper nominations at multiple top conferences.

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