Chenyan Xiong
Associate Professor
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChenyan Xiong is an associate professor and researcher with 12 years of experience specializing in text retrieval, representation, and understanding using semantic models and neural networks. After PhD work in information retrieval at Carnegie Mellon, Chenyan held research roles at Microsoft—including principal researcher—and returned to CMU’s Language Technologies Institute to lead academic research. His work spans natural language understanding, knowledge graphs, deep learning, and information retrieval, with industry impact demonstrated by research fellowships and awards from AI2 and earlier internships at Baidu and Microsoft. Based in Kirkland, WA, he combines rigorous academic grounding with practical product-focused research, often bridging large-scale industry problems and cutting-edge IR methods. Colleagues know him for turning semantic insights into deployable retrieval systems and for mentoring cross-disciplinary teams at the intersection of ML and language.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Wuhan UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Information retrieval, Master of Science (MS), Information retrieval at Chinese academy of scienceMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (45)
netlify10
sequence10
sequence-to-sequence9
forestry9
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
facebook9
python9
ctc9
jekyll-theme9
liquid9
transformer-architecture9
jekyll9
boilerplate9
nlp8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xiongchenyan/QueryExpansion
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:165 commits in 11 months
xiongchenyan/KnowledgeIR
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2008 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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