Biography

Kung-Hsiang (Steeve) Huang is an incoming PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He will join the BLENDER Lab led by Professor Heng Ji in Fall 2021. Currently, he is working towards a master’s degree at the University of Southern California. Under the supervision of Professor Nanyun Peng, he obtained rigorous training in conducting NLP research. His research mainly focuses on information extraction. Particularly, he has worked on knowledge-enhanced event extraction, document-level event extraction, and zero-shot cross-lingual transfer for event extraction. In addition, he is the Chief Technology Officer of Rosetta.ai, in charge of the core Deep Learning-based recommender system that empowers our clients with over millions of online shoppers.