HIT Ph.D. student wins IBM Fellowship Award

2015/03/30


Reported by: JIA Yan
Photographed by: JIA Yan
Translated by: WANG Ying
Edited by: Jonathan Wylie

Recently, HIT Ph.D. student, TANG Duyu, of the School of Computer Science and the Technology and Social Computing and Information Retrieval Research Center, won the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program for the 2015-2016 academic year.

TANG enrolled at HIT in September 2012. His doctoral tutor was Professor QIN Bing, whose research direction was deep learning of text-based sentiment analysis. In the past three years, TANG has published a total of eight papers, and has once won the Baidu scholarship. He also participated in the 2014 International Semantic Dependency analysis and evaluation tasks and ranked second.
 
The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, honoring exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in the IT industry.  From 2002 to 2014, China has had a total of 83 doctoral students receive IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards. In addition to receiving the award, these doctoral students also get internships at the IBM China Research Laboratory, the IBM China Development Laboratory or the IBM China Systems and Technology Laboratory and are partnered with IBM specialist counselors regarding internships subjects.

HIT PhD Student TANG Duyu Wins IBM PhD Fellowship Award.