Ting-Yu (Frank)Yen 6805 Wood Hollow Dr, Austin, TX 78731, USA

Ting-Yu (Frank) Yen

6805 Wood Hollow Dr, Austin, TX 78731, USA

 (+886) 978-093-661 |  tyyen@nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw |  csie.ntu.edu.tw/ b03902052/ |  y95847frank |  ty-yen

Education

University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) Austin, Texas

M.S. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Aug. 2019 - May. 2020 (Expected)

National Taiwan University (NTU) Taipei, Taiwan

B.S. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (GPA: 3.61/4.3 ; Last 60 GPA: 4.13/4.3) Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2018

• Courses: Natural Language Processing (A+), Web Retrieval and Mining (A+), Applied Deep Learning (A+), Artificial Intelligence (A)

Honors & Awards

2018 Best Papers Award Nomination

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2018 First Place

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Awarded best senior project (out of 16 senior projects) by faculty vote and received $1,000 academic scholarship.

2018 ADBERT AI Research Award

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Received $1,700 scholarship from ADBERT CO. due to outstanding research performance.

2018 Academic Presidential Award

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Experience

Natural Language Processing Laboratory, National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan

RESEARCH ASSISTANT Sep. 2016 - Feb. 2019

• Presented a generalized model from existing sense retrofitting model and outperformed previous approaches by 3% in experiments.

• My research interest is ontology embedding, especially published a sense embedding study on COLING. #Ref: https://reurl.cc/NVaYx

• Papers accepted by COLING18, WWW18, CIKM17. Journal accepted by JASIST.

Bing Geocoding Team, Microsoft Taipei, Taiwan

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2018

• Upgraded vital APIs to internal platforms with intensive timeline, and presented my works during cross-country conference calls.

• Designed and built-up workflow and pipelines of a testing tool, reducing over 40% of engineers’ testing time.

• Implemented new features and revamped layouts to increase user experience of internal testing tools, and received positive feedback.

International Business Machines (IBM) Taipei, Taiwan

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2017

• Modified back-end of a product from pipeline to parallel workflow by Celery and improved its performance by more than 50%.

• Designed and constructed an entire back-end workflow that is responsible for a gigantic log parsing product with RabbitMQ, and deployed this feature to docker.

• Added python coding style linter into their continuous integration pipeline to maintain coding style consistency for the whole team.

InfoFab, Inc. Taipei, Taiwan

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN Sep. 2016 - Dec. 2016

• Constructed a business process management program for leave and reimbursement application with an open-source software.

• Integrated BPM program to the cloud system and completed the production test.

• Fully participated in project management process, from spec discussion, production demo, and final report with the president and the software manager of the company.

Publications

[1] Y.-Y. Lee*, T.-Y. Yen*, H.-H. Huang, Y.-T. Shiue, and H.-H. Chen. ”GenSense: A Generalized Sense Retrofitting Model.” in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Aug. 2018. (acceptance rate: 37%)

[2] T.-Y. Yen*, Y.-Y. Lee*, H.-H. Huang, and H.-H. Chen. ”That Makes Sense: Joint Sense Retrofitting from Contextual and Ontological Information.” in Proceedings of the Web Conference 2018 (WWW 2018), poster, Apr. 2018. (acceptance rate: 34%)

[3] Y.-Y. Lee, T.-Y. Yen, H.-H. Huang, and H.-H. Chen. ”Structural-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Ontology for Semantic Relatedness Measurement.” in Proceedings of the 26th ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management (CIKM 2017), short paper, Nov. 2017. (acceptance rate: 28%)

[4] Y.-Y. Lee, H. Ke, T.-Y. Yen, H.-H. Huang, and H.-H. Chen. ”Combining and Learning Word Embedding with WordNet for Semantic Relatedness and Similarity Measurement.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).

p.s. * indicates equal contribution

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