Dawei Li

Dawei Li

Master student at UCSD, actively seeking a PhD program for the fall of 2024

Welcome to Dawei’s Homepage!

I am Dawei Li, a graduate student at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Previously, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Beijing Language and Cultural University (BLCU). During university, I had been a research intern at Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources (ICALL) and AI Lab of Xiaomi. I am fortunately advised by and maintain closely connected with Prof. Jingbo Shang and Dr. Yanran Li.

Research Interests

My research interests include Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. Here are some directions my previous work covered:

  • Combining structured knowledge with unstructured text together to benifit downstream tasks, like dialogue generation, commonsense reasoning and knowledge graph construction.
  • Exploring and exploiting additional corpus to conduct contrastive learning, especially in low-resource and weakly-supervised scenarios.
  • Applying machine learning and data science methods, like adversarial training and casual inference, in NLP tasks to build robust and trustworthy models.

I am also interested in Large Language Models and trying to do some cool things with them.

Service

  • Serve as a Reviewer for EMNLP 2023 and NAACL 2024

Experience

  • University of California, San Diego, 2023.2 - present.
    • Research Intern.
    • Worked with Prof. Jingbo Shang on Robust Relation Extraction, Adversarial Training and In-Context Learning.
  • AI Lab of Xiaomi, 2021.8 - 2022.6.
    • Machine Learning Engineering Intern.
    • Worked with Dr. Yanran Li on Commonsense Knowledge Graph and Emotional Support Conversation.
  • Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources, 2020.6 - 2021.4.
    • Research Intern.
    • Worked on Multi-word Expression and Definition Generation.

Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award (top 5%) at BLCU, 06/2022.
    • Construction of Chinese Common Sense Knowledge Graph for Dialogue
  • The Meritorious Prize winner (top 10%) in “MCM (Mathematical Contest in Modeling)”, 02/2021.
    • Analysis of Hornets’ Propagation Tendency and Reliability Assessment of Sighting Reports
  • The 1st Prize winner (top 8%) in “Beijing Mathematical Contest in Modeling”, 09/2020.
    • Credit Decisions for Small and Micro Businesses
  • The 1st Prize winner (provincial level, top 10%) in “Contemporary Undergraduate MCM”, 05/2020.
    • Risk Analysis of COVID-19