I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at The Ohio State University. My research focus is on natural language processing, machine learning and social media. My recent work is about large-scale sentence level paraphrase collection in Twitter (EMNLP 2017) and deep neural networks for automatic paraphrase identification (NAACL 2018). I am very lucky to work with Professor Wei Xu, who is the best advisor I have ever met.

I also did research on wireless networks and data center networks. In 2014, I interned at Microsoft Research Asia and solved incast problem in data center by developing rate shaping tool (ICNP 2014).

Prior to joining OSU, I received my B.E. in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2014. At USTC, I did research on facial expression recognition with deep boltzmann machine (ACII 2013).

News

• Please check our website for paraphrase dataset!
• May 9 -12, Notre Dame for MSLD.

Publications [Google Scholar]

• Character-based Neural Networks for Sentence Pair Modeling
  Wuwei Lan and Wei Xu. NAACL 2018 (short paper).
  pdf BibTeX code data slides poster
• A Continuously Growing Dataset of Sentential Paraphrases
  Wuwei Lan, Siyu Qiu, Hua He and Wei Xu. EMNLP 2017.
  pdf BibTeX code data slides poster
• PAC: Taming TCP Incast Congestion Using Proactive ACK Control
  Wei Bai, Kai Chen, Haitao Wu, Wuwei Lan and Yangming Zhao. ICNP 2014.
  pdf BibTeX
• Facial Expression Recognition using Deep Boltzmann Machine from Thermal Infrared Images
  Shan He, Shangfei Wang, Wuwei Lan, Huan Fu, and Qiang Ji. ACII 2013.
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Experience

• 06/2013--01/2014: Research Intern at Microsoft Research Asia
                    Group: Wireless and Networking
                   Mentor: Haitao Wu

Teaching

• TA for CSE 2111 (Fall 2016): Modeling and Problem Solving with Spreadsheets and Databases
• TA for CSE 5525 (Spring 2017): Speech and Language Processing

Awards

• 05/2014       Guo Moruo Scholarship (the best scholarship of USTC, only 32 award winners)
• 07/2013       CCF Outstanding Undergraduate Award (100 award winners from TOP Chinese universities)
• 06/2013       Google Excellence Scholarship (100 award winners from TOP 20 Chinese universities)
• 09/2012       National Scholarship (2 out of 109)
• 09/2011       Outstanding Student Scholarship(Grade 1) of USTC (6 out of 109)
• 09/2010       The Cyrus Tang Moral Scholarship

Service

• Program Committee, W-NUT 2017/2018, MASC-SLL 2017, and ACL-SRW 2018