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Title:Research Progress of Knowledge Reasoning and Application over Knowledge Graphs

Bio:Dr. Shizhu He is an associate researcher and master supervisor of the State Key Laboratory of pattern recognition, Institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are knowledge reasoning, question answering and natural language processing. He has published more than 20 papers on top international conferences and important academic journals such as ACL, AAAI, EMNLP. And the total citations of published papers exceeded 4100 in Google Scholar. He has undertaken a number of national and enterprise projects, participated in the writing of two monographs “Knowledge Graphs” and Knowledge Graphs: Algorithms and Practice”, won the first prize of “QianWeichang Chinese information processing science and Technology Award” of Chinese information society in 2018, the first prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019, and was selected as a member of the youth innovation promotion association of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Title: Research Progress of Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs

Bio: Dr. Dandan Song is a tenured professor in School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. Her research interests include knowledge mining, natural language processing, and bioinformatics. She has published more than 20 papers in Nature sub-journal, ACL, SIGIR, IJCAI, AAAI, WWW and other top international conferences and important academic journals. She has presided over a number of projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has won the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, Beijing Youth Talent and other titles.

Title: Frontier Research on Knowledge Enhanced Pre-trained Language Models

Bio:Dr. Linmei Hu is an associate professor and master supervisor in the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She achieved her Ph.D degree in Tsinghua University in 2018, and was awarded Beijing Outstanding Graduates. Her main research interests include knowledge graph and natural language processing. She has published more than 30 papers on top international conferences and important academic journals such as ACL and EMNLP. She has undertaken several national and enterprise projects. She published the translation monograph “Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis and Application” and participated in the writing of the textbook “Data Science Introduction”. She was supported by “Star Scholar Program ” in MSRA in 2019.