Mingyu Derek Ma
馬明宇
PhD Student
USC ISI & CS
Pronouns: they/he
Hi!
I'm a PhD student at USC Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Science. I work at the PLUS lab advised by Dr. Nanyun Peng. My main research interest is natural language processing (NLP) especially constructing event schemas from unstructured information.
I received my bachelor's degree in Computing from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2018 and I was an exchange student at the University of Maryland in 2016. I was fortunate to work at CUHK, UCSC, MIT and PolyU on dialogue systems, sentiment analysis, blockchain and educational tech.
Experience
USC Information Sciences Institute
Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Nanyun Peng, Since Aug 2019
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
Capstone Project Student to Prof. Qin Lu, Sep 2017 - June 2018
Sentiment analysis model utilizing user and product profile
More
PolyU 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
University of Southern California
PhD in Computer Science
Since 2019The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bachelor of Science in Computing
(First Class Honours)
2014 - 2018
University of Maryland
Exchange Student, Computer Science
2016
