Hou Pong Chan, Ken

Research Scientist

Language Technology Lab
Singapore R&D Center
DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group
Email: kenchanhp at gmail dot com


Biography

I am a research scientist at the Language Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy. Prior to that, I was a visiting postdoc researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a visiting lecturer (Macao Fellow) at the University of Macau. I received my Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, supervised by Prof. Irwin King. My research focuses on improving the factuality and controllability of natural language generation.

News

  • [10/2023] Two papers accepted by EMNLP 2023.
  • [5/2023] Four papers accepted by ACL 2023 (including findings).
  • [1/2023] One paper accepted by WWW 2023.
  • [11/2022] One paper accepted by AAAI 2023.

Preprints

Publications (* indicates equal contribution) [Google Scholar]

2023 2022 2021 2020 Before 2020

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Reviewer, ACL, 2021
Outstanding Reviewer, EMNLP, 2020
The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2018
The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2017
Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2014
Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2013

Professional Activities

  • Local Co-chair: MT Summit 2023

  • Session Chair: ICONIP 2020 Tutorial Session

  • SPC Member: IJCAI 2021

  • Conference Reviewer: EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023, IROS 2023, AAAI 2023, EMNLP 2022, ACL 2022, AAAI 2022, EMNLP 2021, ACL 2021, NAACL 2021, AAAI 2021, EMNLP 2020, ACL 2020, AAAI 2020, EMNLP 2019, AAAI 2019

  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE TKDE, IEEE/ACM TASLP, ACM TALLIP, KBS Journal

  • Teaching Assistant

    2018 Spring CSCI2100A Data Structures
    2017 Fall CSCI2100 Data Structures
    2017 Spring CSCI3180 Principles of Programming Languages
    2016 Spring CSCI2100A Data Structures
    2015 Fall ENGG2120 Introduction to Digital and Microprocessor Systems