Hou Pong Chan, Ken Ph.D. Candidate Rm 1024, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Email: kenchanhp at gmail dot com [Resume/CV]

Biography

I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Irwin King. In spring 2019, I worked with Prof. Lu Wang at Northeastern University as a visiting PhD student. My research interest includes text summarization, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning.

News

Publications [Google Scholar]

• Neural Keyphrase Generation via Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Rewards
  Hou Pong Chan, Wang Chen, Lu Wang, and Irwin King.
  Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019.
  

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• Topic-Aware Neural Keyphrase Generation for Social Media Language
  Yue Wang, Jing Li, Hou Pong Chan, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Shuming Shi.
  Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019.
  

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• An Integrated Approach for Keyphrase Generation via Exploring the Power of Retrieval and Extraction
  Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Piji Li, Lidong Bing, and Irwin King.
  Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019.
  

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• Thread Popularity Prediction and Tracking with a Permutation-invariant Model
  Hou Pong Chan and Irwin King.
  Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2018.
  
• Leveraging Social Connections to Improve Peer Assessment in MOOCs
  Hou Pong Chan and Irwin King.
  Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Digital Learning Track (WWW), 2017.
  

Honors & Awards

The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2018

The Best Teaching Assistant Award, CSE Department, CUHK, 2017

Innovation and Technology Project Competition Merit Award, HKEIA, 2014

Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2014

Dean's list, Engineering Faculty, CUHK, 2013

Professional Activities

Conference Reviews:
EMNLP 2019
AAAI2019
ASONAM 2018
EMOOCs 2017
CTE 2017
HCOMP 2016
ASONAM 2016

Journal Reviews:
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA)

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