Work and Research Experience

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Position: Full-time Research Assistant
Supervisor: Prof. Helen Meng
Location: Hong Kong
Duration: August 2020 - August 2021

Researched on Dialog Systems and Cross-lingual Hyperbolic Word Embeddings in NLP, and submitted research papers to major conferences
Participated in the 9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) and qualified as top-12 finalists with a workshop paper accepted at DSTC9 workshop at AAAI-2021
Assisted in the development and deployment of a knowledge-grounded dialog system which extracts information from an external unstructured knowledge for user queries outside the scope of structured database/APIs
Researched and developed cross-lingual word representations in hyperbolic space with potential uses in downstream NLP tasks such as translation and cross-lingual lexical entailment
Assisted in the development of AI teaching curriculum and tools for 55 high schools in Hong Kong as part of the ‘CUHK-Jockey Club AI for the Future’ project
Communicated with different stakeholders to improve the AI teaching curriculum
Developed, deployed, and scaled Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis and Voice Conversion deep learning models to production
Conducted API load testing using Apache JMeter
Developed dashboard for monitoring and managing the deployed web-APIs
Designed and conducted AI workshops for school teachers and students
Maintained and configured GPU servers for model development, training, and deployment
Setup knowledge collaboration and sharing platform for the project team
Trained and assisted project interns

Unstructured Knowledge Access in Task-oriented Dialog Modeling using Language Inference, Knowledge Retrieval and Knowledge-Integrative Response Generation
Authors: Mudit Chaudhary, Borislav Dzodzo, Sida Huang, Chun Hei Lo, Mingzhi Lyu, Lun Yiu Nie, Jinbo Xing, Tianhua Zhang, Xiaoying Zhang, Jingyan Zhou, Hong Cheng, Wai Lam, Helen Meng
Venue: DSTC9 Workshop at AAAI-21
Links: arXiv, dblp, Poster Presentation