Chen Danqi, the great God of Yao class in Tsinghua University, has just had the latest honor. Sloan research award winner. Sloan research award has always been the title of "Nobel Prize weathervane". Researchers who receive this award will receive a $75000 prize for two years. Previously, Lu Rong and Ma Tengyu, who are both graduates of Yao class with Chen Danqi, have attracted attention because they won this award. Back to Chen Danqi, he is one of the most concerned young Chinese scholars in the field of computer science. She is an alumnus of Tsinghua Yao class in grade 08 and a legendary female player in the field of Informatics competition. The CDQ divide and conquer algorithm is named after her. In 2008, she won an IOI gold medal on behalf of the Chinese team. And her 156 page doctoral dissertation, "neural reading comprehension and beyond", was once popular. Not only won the Stanford best Doctoral Thesis Award, but also became one of the most popular Graduation Theses in Stanford University in recent ten years. Now, she has gone to Princeton University to build an NLP team from scratch and become an assistant professor in the computer department of Princeton University. Build NLP team from zero The reason for this award is based on Chen Danqi's achievements and potential in the NLP field. At present, the research direction mainly focuses on two aspects. One is to develop basic methods to learn language and knowledge representation, and the interaction between them. In particular, there are two problems: how to obtain human knowledge (such as declarative and common sense) from text, and how intelligent systems express, retrieve, reason and use this knowledge. The other is to establish a practical system, including question answering, information extraction and dialogue agent, especially how to extend these methods to real scenes. Among her team members, one is also a graduate of Tsinghua University and the winner of Tsinghua special award in 2019, Gao Tianyu. He is also involved in the latest research. This study proposes a new evaluation mechanism - question rewriting mechanism based on predictive history, which can form a better relationship with human judgment and make the effect of dialogue question answering (CQA) better. Before coming to Princeton University, she was a doctoral student at Stanford University and studied under Christopher Manning, the great God of NLP. This is a leading figure. He is the founder of Stanford NLP group. His books foundations of statistical natural language processing and introduction to information retrieval are required introductory books for almost every nlper. Under the guidance and study of Professor Manning, she published a "a fast and accurate dependency parser using neural networks" in 2014, which can be said to be the "pioneering work" of in-depth learning dependency analysis method. Their method directly improves the analytical speed by 60 times on the premise of maintaining the accuracy. Her influence in the academic circles continues. The most typical is the 156 page paper written on the occasion of her doctoral graduation, which has received thousands of visits in only four days. This paper mainly focuses on neural reading comprehension. In short, it is a reading comprehension model based on deep neural network. It includes two parts: expounding the principle, building the model and building the practical application scenario combined with the existing achievements. Go to Stanford to join the NLP leader, and then go to Princeton to set up the NLP team. Recalling these two experiences, Chen Danqi once explained the reasons for her choice. Chen Danqi told the official account of the school. When I chose Stanford, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I chose research group later. I went to Princeton because I thought it was an opportunity for me, an opportunity for growth and commitment. Because prin didn't have NLP before, he can establish his own group here. The algorithm lives in her name Every time I mention the Yao class of Tsinghua University, I must have the name of Chen Danqi. In fact, looking back on her whole experience, her achievements today are inseparable from her own efforts and the support of her surroundings. She was born in Changsha, Hunan Province and studied in Changsha Yali middle school in high school. This school is a strong school in the informatics Olympic competition. In history, a total of 9 students have won the gold medal of IOI (International informatics Olympic competition), more than one in Shaoxing No. 1 middle school, which is known as the "first school in informatics competition". Chen Danqi won the 20th IOI gold medal in 2008, the third year of senior high school, and became the first female gold medal player in Hunan Province. He was escorted to Yao class of Tsinghua University and became classmates with Ma Tengyu and Yu Jiajun. When Chen Danqi was very young, he found that his daughter was very sensitive to numbers, and her problem-solving speed and comprehensiveness were better than those of children of the same age. She began to train her father's mathematical awareness in the first grade of the National Olympic mathematics league and won the second prize. The familiar "CDQ divide and conquer algorithm" in the Olympic Circle was put forward by Xueba during the training and named after her. There is also the famous plug DP, which is also the result of her training team. Based on this tool, she also published a paper "dynamic programming problem based on connectivity state compression". It was reported at that time that she was also very relaxed after study. She loved watching Detective Conan and practiced good running script. It was also during this Olympic journey that she met her future husband, Yu Huacheng. He also showed a wave of love in his doctoral thesis. (manual dog head) Well, that's the handsome guy on the far right of the picture below. Chen Danqi said in the acknowledgment that she had known him since she was 15 years old (first year of senior high school), from the competition in high school to the undergraduate course in Tsinghua University for four years, and then went to Stanford to study for a doctor of computer. Finally, she got married four months before graduation. Yu Huacheng has always been his best friend and most admired person. Yu Huacheng himself is also very powerful. During his doctoral study at Stanford University, he graduated two years ahead of schedule because he published many important papers. Then he did postdoctoral research at Harvard University, mainly on theoretical computers, and finally became an assistant professor at Princeton University. In addition to these experiences, Chen Danqi has more than once called on women to participate more in the construction of science, engineering and computer disciplines. She once said in an interview with the "sister of fork College": Don't deliberately emphasize that girls are not good at engineering and computer. Gap between men and women will become increasingly non-existent. There are also many Chinese awards in the computer field A total of 118 scientists from chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer and other fields won the Sloan award. Among them, the computer field has been awarded to 20 global scientists, including 5 Chinese. Among the Chinese winners, the most are alumni from Tsinghua University, in addition to Chen Danqi: Fang Fei, an assistant professor of CMU and a Bachelor of Tsinghua Electronic Engineering Department in grade 07. She graduated from the University of Southern California and her main research interests are game theory and machine learning. Gu Quanquan, an associate professor of UCLA, graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in automation and a master's degree in control science and engineering. His research direction is statistical machine learning, focusing on the development and analysis of Nonconvex Optimization Algorithms for machine learning. In ICML 2021, he received eight papers. Two other Chinese winners are: Song shuran, an alumnus of HKUST, is now an assistant professor at Columbia University, mainly studying computer vision and robotics. And now UIUC Professor Li Bo, whose research interests are machine learning and its security, privacy and game theory. In addition to the direction of computer science, six Chinese scholars won the mathematics award in the Sloan award, including two from the mathematical Academy of Peking University and three from the physics award. (Xinhua News Agency)