Awards

Primary Awards

• [2025] IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE
• [2024] Wu Wenjun First Prize for Science and Technology Progress in 2024, CAAI, China
• [2023-2025] Be selected in the list of World top 2% scientists, Stanford University & Elsevier

Competition Awards

• A-OKVQA Challenge
  • [Nov, 2023] VL-Reasoner got First Place on A-OKVQA, a knowledge-based visual QA challenge.
• DROP Challenge
  • [Jun, 2023] D-Reasoner got First Place on DROP, a discrete reasoning QA benchmark.
• QASC Challenge
  • [Oct, 2022] X-Reasoner++ got First Place on QASC, becoming the first model system that surpasses human performance! Snapshot
• OpenBookQA Challenge
  • [July, 2022] X-Reasoner got First Place on OpenBookQA, becoming the first single-model system that surpasses human performance! Snapshot
• SemEval 2022 (16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation)
  • [Apr, 2022] We got First Place on SemEval 2022 Task 8! Snapshot
  • [Apr, 2022] We achieved the best performance on SemEval 2022 Task 2 (Subtask A, one-shot)! Snapshot
• VCR (Visual Commonsense Reasoning)
  • [Jan, 2022] VL-RoBERTa got First Place on VCR with a Q2AR score of 72.8! Snapshot
• XTREME (Cross-Lingual Transfer Evaluation of Multilingual Encoders)
  • [Oct, 2021] CoFe got First Place on XTREME with an average score of 84.1! Snapshot
• GLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation)
  • [Aug, 2020] MacALBERT + DKM got First Place on GLUE with an average score of 90.7! Snapshot
• HotpotQA (Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering)
  • [May, 2020] Step-by-Step Retriever got First Place on ‘Fullwiki Setting’ track. Snapshot PDF
  • [Oct, 2019] C2F Reader got First Place on ‘Distractor Setting’ track. Snapshot PDF
• SQuAD (Stanford Question Answering Dataset) 2.0
  • [Mar, 2019] BERT + DAE + AoA got First Place, the first system to outperform human performance. Snapshot PDF
  • [Nov, 2018] AoA + DA + BERT got First Place, the first system where F1 exceeds 85%. Snapshot PDF
• CoQA (Conversational Question Answering Challenge)
  • [Dec, 2018] D-AoA + BERT got First Place, the first system where the overall score exceeds 80%. Snapshot PDF
• QuAC (Question Answering in Context)
  • [Mar, 2019] ConvBERT got First Place. Snapshot PDF
• SQuAD (Stanford Question Answering Dataset) 1.1
  • [Jan, 2018] Hybrid AoA Reader got First Place, the first system where F1 exceeds 89%! Snapshot
  • [Oct, 2017] Interactive AoA Reader+ got First Place, the first system where EM exceeds 79%. Snapshot
  • [Jul, 2017] Interactive AoA Reader got First Place, the first system where F1 exceeds 85%. Snapshot
• SemEval 2018 (12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation: Task 11)
  • [Feb, 2018] Our system got First Place in Task 11: Machine Comprehension using Commonsense Knowledge.
• NIST OpenMT15 Evaluation
  • [Jan, 2015] Several First & Second Place in Chinese-to-English translation task (participated as USTC). Result (online) PDF
• IWSLT 2014 (11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation)
  • [Dec, 2014] First Place in Chinese-to-English and English-to-Chinese TED translation task (participated as USTC). Result (PDF)
• IWSLT 2012 (9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation)
  • [Dec, 2012] First Place in Chinese-to-English Olympic translation task (participated as HIT-LTRC). Result (PDF)

Other Awards

• [2021] Outstanding Author Award, Publishing House of Electronics Industry
• [2021] Featured Researcher of TPU Research Cloud (TRC) Program, Google
• [2018] The First HuaXia Innovation Award (10 out of 10,000+), iFLYTEK LTD, China
• [2017] Outstanding Team Award (as leader), iFLYTEK Research, China
• [2016] Outstanding Employee Award, iFLYTEK Research, China
• [2015] Outstanding Employee Award, iFLYTEK Research, China
• [2014] Outstanding New Employee Award, iFLYTEK Research, China
• [2014] Outstanding Graduates Award (Gold Medal), Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• [2014] Province-Level Triple-A Student Award, Heilongjiang Province, China
• [2013] Special Grade Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• [2013] GuangHua Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• [2012] Second Grade Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, China