Email: haoj8711@gmail.com
Tel: 850-800-6566

About

I’m Jie Hao, I am currently working as a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, Alexa AI. I obtained the Ph.D. degree in Statistics at Florida State University (FSU). My research broadly lies around Natural Language Processing and Statistical Machine Learning. My current research focuses on Dialogue System and Machine Translation.

Education

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Ph.D. in Statistics, Aug. 2016-Dec. 2020

Fudan University, Shanghai, China
B.S. in Mathematics, Sep. 2012-June. 2016

Experience

Amazon, Alexa AI
Senior Applied Scientist, Mar. 2023 - present
Applied Scientist II, Jan. 2021 - Mar. 2023

Tencent AI Lab
Research Intern, Sep. 2020 - Dec. 2020

Amazon, Alexa AI
Applied Scientist Intern, Jan. 2020 - July. 2020

Tencent AI Lab
Research Intern, May. 2018 - Sep. 2019

Publications

  1. Unified Contextual Query Rewriting. [to appear]
    Yingxue Zhou, Jie Hao, Mukund Rungta, Yang Liu, Eunah Cho, Xing Fan, Yanbin Lu, Vishal Vasudevan, Kellen Gillespie, Zeynab Raseey, Wei Shen, Chenlei Guo and Gokhan Tur
    In ACL Industry Track, 2023.

  2. CGF: Constrained Generation Framework for Query Rewriting in Conversational AI. [paper]
    Jie Hao, Yang Liu, Xing Fan, Saurabh Gupta, Saleh Soltan, Rakesh Chada, Pradeep Natarajan, Chenlei Guo and Gokhan Tur
    In EMNLP Industry Track, 2022. (Oral)

  3. PAIGE: Personalized Adaptive Interactions Graph Encoder for Query Rewriting in Dialogue Systems. [paper]
    Daniel Bis, Saurabh Gupta, Jie Hao, Xing Fan, Chenlei Guo.
    In EMNLP Industry Track, 2022.

  4. PENTATRON: PErsonalized coNText-Aware Transformer for Retrieval-based cOnversational uNderstanding. [paper]
    Niranjan Uma Naresh, Ziyan Jiang, Ankit, Sungjin Lee, Jie Hao, Xing Fan, Chenlei Guo
    In EMNLP Industry Track, 2022.

  5. Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting During Domain Adaptation of Seq2seq Language Generation. [paper]
    Dingcheng Li, Zheng Chen, Eunah Cho, Jie Hao, Xiaohu Liu, Xing Fan, Chenlei Guo, Yang Liu.
    In NAACL, 2022.

  6. RAST: Domain-Robust Dialogue Rewriting as Sequence Tagging. [paper][code]
    Jie Hao, Linfeng Song, Liwei Wang, Kun Xu, Zhaopeng Tu, Dong Yu.
    In EMNLP, 2021.

  7. Contextual Rephrase Detection for Reducing Friction in Dialogue Systems. [paper]
    Zhuoyi Wang*, Saurabh Gupta*, Jie Hao*, Xing Fan, Dingcheng Li, Alexander Hanbo Li, Chenlei Guo.
    (* Equal contribution)
    In EMNLP, 2021. (Oral)

  8. Personalized Search-based Query Rewrite System for Conversational AI. [paper]
    Eunah Cho, Ziyan Jiang, Jie Hao, Zheng Chen, Saurabh Gupta, Xing Fan, Chenlei Guo.
    In EMNLP NLP4ConvAI, 2021. (Oral)

  9. Triage of Documents containing protein interactions affected by mutations using a NLP based machine learning approach. [paper]
    Albert Steppi, Jinchan Qu, Dongrui Zhong, Jie Hao, Jian Wang, Pei-Yau Lung, Tingting Zhao, Zhe He and Jinfeng Zhang.
    BMC Genomics, 2020.

  10. Robust Dialogue Utterance Rewriting as Sequence Tagging. [paper][code]
    Jie Hao, Linfeng Song, Liwei Wang, Kun Xu, Zhaopeng Tu, Dong Yu.
    In arXiv, 2020.

  11. Multi-Granularity Self-Attention for Neural Machine Translation. [paper]
    Jie Hao, Xing Wang, Shuming Shi, Jinfeng Zhang, and Zhaopeng Tu.
    In EMNLP, 2019.

  12. Towards Better Modeling Hierarchical Structure for Self-Attention with Ordered Neurons. [paper][code]
    Jie Hao, Xing Wang, Shuming Shi, Jinfeng Zhang, and Zhaopeng Tu.
    In EMNLP, 2019.

  13. Modeling Recurrence for Transformer. [paper]
    Jie Hao, Xing Wang, Baosong Yang, Longyue Wang, Jinfeng Zhang, and Zhaopeng Tu.
    In NAACL, 2019. (Oral)

  14. Mining protein interactions affected by mutations using a NLP based machine learning approach. [paper]
    Jinchan Qu, Albert Steppi, Jie Hao, Jian Wang, Pei-Yau Lung, Tingting Zhao, Zhe He and Jinfeng Zhang.
    In Proceedings of BioCreative VI workshop, 2017.

Professional Service

Program Committee Member: EMNLP (2020-2022), AACL (2020-2022), COLING (2020-2022), NLPCC 2020, CCL (2019-2020), EACL 2021, AAAI (2021-2023), NAACL 2021, ACL 2021-2023, TASLP 2021, ACL Rolling Review (2021-), KDD 2022-2023
Secondary Reviewer: EMNLP (2018-2019), AAAI (2019-2020), NAACL 2019, ACL (2019-2020), IJCAI 2019