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Dongchen He
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,China
Mail: dche@link.cuhk.edu.hk or dc23.he@gmail.com
Biography
Dongchen HE is now a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate majoring in Computer Science in CUHK under the supervision of Prof. LI Yu. For any collaboration, please feel free to drop me an email.
Research Interests
- AI4Healthcare
- Bioinformatics
- Natural Language Processing
Publications (* denotes equal contribution, # denotes corresponding author)
Nature Computational Science: Deep generative design of RNA aptamers using structural predictions
Authors: Felix Wong*, Dongchen He*, Aarti Krishnan, Liang Hong, Alexander Z. Wang, Jiuming Wang, Zhihang Hu, Satotaka Omori, Alicia Li, Jiahua Rao, Qinze Yu, Wengong Jin, Tianqing Zhang, Katherine Ilia, Jack X. Chen, Shuangjia Zheng, Irwin King, Yu Li#, James J. Collins#
ISMB-2024/Bioinformatics:RiboDiffusion: tertiary structure-based RNA inverse folding with generative diffusion models
Authors: Han Huang* , Ziqian Lin* , Dongchen He , Liang Hong , Yu Li#
COLING-2022: View Dialogue in 2D: A Two-stream Model in Time-speaker Perspective for Dialogue Summarization and Beyond
Authors: Keli Xie, Dongchen He, Jiaxin Zhuang, Siyuan Lu and Zhongfeng Wang#
Patents
Chinese invention patent: A dialogue text processing method and device
Inventors: Zhongfeng Wang, Keli Xie, Dongchen He, Jiaxin Zhuang, Siyuan Lu
News
[Nov 2024] RhoDesign is published by Nature Computational Science [IF = 18.6]. Many thanks for all collaborators!
[June 2024] RiboDiffusion is accepted by ISMB
[Nov 2022] I decide to pursue my Ph.D. degree in the department of Computer Science and Engineering of CUHK under the supervision of Prof. LI Yu.
[Aug 2022] Our paper about dialogue summarization has been accepted by COLING-2022. Congratulations!
[June 2022] Joining Uranus Research as an intern working on quant research.
[May 2022] Our paper focusing on dialogue summarization has been submitted to COLING-2022, waiting for good news.
[Feb 2022] Joining AIH Lab in CUHK, working on bioinformatics under the supervision of Prof. LI Yu .
[Oct 2021] Joining NLP research group in ICAIS Lab in Nanjing University, working on dialogue summarization under the supervision of IEEE Fellow Prof. WANG Zhongfeng.
[Aug 2021] Joining the summer camp of NLP held by NanJing University, and being rewared the Best Performance Award for my outstanding academic performance during the summer camp.
Experience
Professional Experience
Uranus Research, private funding in Shanghai, June 2022 - Aug 2022
Quant researcher, Summer Intern
- Worked on digging alpha factor by using volume and price data.
- Huge thanks to Dr. SUN Bo(CEO), Dr. GONG Peng for their generous help and advice！
Research Experience
Dialogue Summarization, Sep. 2021 – May 2022
Research Assistant, ICAIS Lab of Nanjing university
- Worked on the dialogue summarization and try to improve the faithfulness and accuracy of automatically generated summaries.
- The paper has been under review of COLING-2022
Offline Deployment of Task-oriented Dialogue System, Sep. 2021 – June 2022
Team Leader, ICAIS Lab of Nanjing university
- Worked on the research of deploying the offline dialogue system to RPi instead of uploading user’s data to cloud.
- Offline task-oriented dialogue system can protect user’s privacy and can be used in many specific areas, such as voice assistant siri.
Education
Nanjing University
B.Eng, Communication Engineering, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering,
B.Eng in minor, Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Sep 2019 - Jul 2023, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Skills
Progamming Languages: Python, C/C++, SQL
Tools: Fairseq, Pytorch, GitHub
Basic knowledge: Machine learning, Deep learning, NLP(seq2seq, lstm, transformer, BERT, BART, GPT)
Hobbies
Instruments: Piano and guitar. And I’m also very curious about some technologies like AI composer which combines music with artificial intelligence.
Musical: Hamilton,Dear Evan Hanson,Come from Away,Le rouge et le noir are some of my favorites.
Sports: running & swimming