Kung-Hsiang (Steeve) Huang is a first-year PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is part of the BLENDER Lab, led by Professor Heng Ji, where his works mainly focus on fact checking and fake news detection. Prior to joining UIUC, he obtained his 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 a co-founder of Rosetta.ai, in charge of the core Deep Learning-based recommender system that empowers our clients with over millions of online shoppers.
PhD in Computer Science, 2021 -
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MSc in Computer Science, 2020 - 2021
University of Southern California
BEng in Computer Science, 2014 - 2018
Hong Kong University of Science and Technlogy
Exchange Program, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology