Ning Shi
Pronouns: he, him, his
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/shining
Contact
Grad Research Asst Fellowship, Faculty of Science - Computing Science
- ning.shi@ualberta.ca
- Address
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Athabasca Hall
9119 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2E8
Grad Teaching Assistantship, Faculty of Science - Computing Science
- nshi2@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing Reinforcement Learning
About
I am a Ph.D. student working with Prof. Grzegorz Kondrak at the University of Alberta, associated with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). Previously, I was a senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba Group. I hold multiple M.S. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and New York University.
Research
My research interests lie in the broad area of computational linguistics, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and their applications. In particular, from the perspective of human cognition, I am interested in the extent to which neural networks can do the same (or even better?) as humans to understand the world systematically. Meanwhile, I hold a research group called Shining Lab. For any research opportunity or collaboration, please feel free to get in touch.
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of Alberta
- CMPUT 174 - Introduction to the Foundations of Computation I
- CMPUT 261 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- CMPUT 331 - Computational Cryptography
- CMPUT 399 - Topics in Computing Science: Emotion Identification at the Word Sense Level
- CMPUT 650 - Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Computational Semantics
Graduate Teaching Assistant - CIFAR-OSMO AI4Good Lab
Research Mentor - CRA UR2PhD
Announcements
- 02/29/2024 - Glad to receive the 2024 Upper Bound Talent Bursary. See you there!
- 11/29/2023 - Honored to receive the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship.
- 12/23/2022 - Glad to share recent findings at the Amii AI Seminar.