Mingyu Derek Ma 马明宇
PhD Student
Information Sciences Institute &
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
Pronouns: he/him/his
Hi!
I'm currently a PhD student at ISI and Department of Computer Science of USC. I work at the PLUS lab advised by Dr. Nanyun Peng. Before coming to USC, I graduated from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a Bachelor of Science in Computing and worked at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. My main research interest is Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Experience
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USC Information Sciences Institute
Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Nanyun Peng, Since Aug 2019
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong MoE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies
Research Assistant to Prof. Helen Meng, Jan - July 2019
Cantonese Dialogue Systems for Health Questionaire -
UC Santa Cruz Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab
Research Intern to Prof. Marilyn Walker, Jun - Oct 2018
SlugBot for Amazon Alexa Prize and discourse relations identification for open-domain dialogues -
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dept. of Computing
Capstone Project Student to Prof. Qin Lu, Sep 2017 - June 2018
Sentiment analysis model utilizing user and product profile
More
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Internet and Mobile Computing Lab
Student Assistant to Prof. Jiannong Cao, Jan 2017 - June 2018
Blockchain system for big data sharing and NLP anti-phishing solution for Hong Kong Police Force -
Research Intern to Dr. Abel Sanchez and Prof. John R. Williams, Jul - Aug 2017
Educational Technology system for programming courses -
Co-founder, Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Computer vision object detection for the visually impaired -
Front-end Web Development Intern, Jun - Jul 2016
Education
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University of Southern California
PhD in Computer Science
Since 2019 -
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bachelor of Science in Computing
(1st Class Honors)
2014 - 2018 -
University of Maryland
Exchange Student, Computer Science
2016
