RESUME

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Skills

Professional

info

I'm a Project researcher at University of Tokyo, also a senior NLP researcher at Couger, inc. Most of my research projects are about dialogue systems and language modeling. I'm also interested in human agent, HCI, VR and AR technology. In my free time, I enjoy playing video games and boxing.

Unity 3D

Hololens Development

VR Development

Java Development

Machine Learning/Deep Learning

Work

experience

AI Researcher, Couger Inc., Japan

2019.4 - present

As AI Engineer at Couger, I develop algorithms and AI solutions to help Virtual Human Agent communicate with human fluently and naturally.

Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo, Japan

2023.7 - present

I pursue the research on open-domain dialogue systems that incorporate external knowledge for more human-like conversation generation.

Research Assistant, Riken Japan

2017.10 - 2019.3

As research assistant at Riken, my job is to support research work by developing intelligent systems on conversation envisioning. I developed three platforms during this period.

Java Developer

2016.10 - 2017.3

I developed Java web applications as a Java developer. My work was mainly on developing different logic modules such as database query, dynamic selection, of the system.

Languages

Human Languages

Chinese (Native)

English (Bilingual-proficiency)

Japanese (JLPT N1)

Programming Languages

Java

C++

Python

PHP

Education

University of Tokyo, Ph.D.

2020.4 - 2023.3

I'm currently a PhD student at Miyao Lab, School of Information and Technology, University of Tokyo. My main research direction is dialogue system, HCI and NLP.

Kyoto University, Master of S.

2017.4 - 2019.3

I got master degree at kyoto university, japan majoring in artificial intelligence. I finished all courses in the first year of my master and got overall grade of "A" for all courses, and will be graduating in March, 2019.

Hefei University of Technology, Bachelor of Eng.

2011.9 - 2015.7

I finished my bachelor course at HFUT, China. I started my first project in the second year and continued to complete around 30 projects in my whole bachelor course. Most of the projects are web system applications development. There are also some projects on IoT and big data development.

Publication

Qiang Zhang, Jason Naradowsky, and Yusuke Miyao. 2023. Mind the Gap Between Conversations for Improved Long-Term Dialogue Generation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 10735–10762, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zhang, Q., Naradowsky, J., & Miyao, Y. (2023). Revisiting The Offensive Text Detection Problem with a Chain-of-Reasoning Approach. Journal of Natural Language Processing, 30(3), 1061-1087.
Qiang Zhang, Jason Naradowsky, and Yusuke Miyao. 2023. Ask an Expert: Leveraging Language Models to Improve Strategic Reasoning in Goal-Oriented Dialogue Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 6665–6694, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Qiang Zhang, Jason Naradowsky, and Yusuke Miyao. 2022. Rethinking Offensive Text Detection as a Multi-Hop Reasoning Problem. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 3888–3905, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zhang Q. (2020) Expectation and Reaction as Intention for Conversation System. In: Kurosu M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodal and Natural Interaction. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49062-1_19.
Zhang Q., Mirzaei M.S., Huang H., Nishida T. (2019) Story Envisioning Framework for Visualized Collective Storytelling in Conversation. HCII2019. Springer.
Mirzaei, M. S., Zhang, Q., Meshgi, K., Nishida, T. Collaborative learning through story envisioning in virtual reality, EuroCALL 2019, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Aug 2019.
Mirzaei M.S., Zhang Q., Nishida T. (2018) Conversation Envisioning to Train Inter-cultural Interactions. In: Meiselwitz G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. Technologies and Analytics. SCSM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10914. Springer, Cham
Mirzaei M.S., Zhang Q., van der Struijk S., Nishida T. (2018) Conversation Envisioning Framework for Situated Conversation. In: Mouhoub M., Sadaoui S., Ait Mohamed O., Ali M. (eds) Recent Trends and Future Technology in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol10868. Springer, Cham
Mirzaei, M. S., Zhang, Q., Nishida, T. (In press). Language learning through conversation envisioning in virtual reality, EuroCALL 2018, Jyv¨askyl¨a, Finland, Aug 2018.
Mirzaei, M. S., Zhang, Q., Struijk, S., Nishida, T. (In press). Exploiting virtual reality to advance sociocultural knowledge for language learners, WORLDCALL 2018, Concepcion, Biobo Region, Chile, Nov 2018.
Maryam Sadat Mirzaei,Qiang Zhang, Stef van der Struijk, Toyoaki Nishida. (2019) Towards Conversation Envisioning for Cognitive Robots in Blended Cognition: The Robotic Challenge.