Before joining Microsoft at the end of February 2006, I was a senior research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of University of Southern California where I worked with Dr. Eduard Hovy in the Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation group since 1997. My research interests are automated summarization, opinion analysis, question answering (QA), information extraction, machine translation (MT), and machine learning. Recently, my main focus is developing automatic evaluation technologies for summarization, QA, and MT. I created the ROUGE automatic summarization evaluation package. It has become the de facto standard in summarization evaluations. At MSRA, I am looking forward to learning from the amazingly talented people here, collaborating with researchers in NLC and other groups, contributing to the overall success of the Asia Lab, and advocating the excellence of MSRA and MSR in the international research community.

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