Tong Xiao
Full Professor at Northeastern University (CN)
Shenyang City, Liaoning, China
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Top SchoolTong Xiao is a Full Professor at Northeastern University (China) with eight years of post-tenure experience and a continuous academic trajectory at the same institution since his PhD. He leads research in natural language processing with a focus on machine translation, combining foundational research with applied system development. As co-founder of NiuTrans, he bridges academia and industry to deliver practical MT solutions and commercialize research outputs. His background includes postdoctoral work at Cambridge and internships at Microsoft Research Asia, reflecting strong international research collaborations. Known for building both models and end-to-end systems, he brings a rare mix of theoretical depth and production-oriented engineering to NLP challenges. Based in Shenyang, he continues to shape translation technologies while mentoring the next generation of researchers.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Northeastern University (CN)
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
machine-translation10
neural-machine-translation10
translation10
corpus10
arabic-nlp10
machine-learning10
statistical-machine-translation10
nmt10
language-processing10
deep-learning10
computational-linguistics10
naive-bayes10
tex10
fairness-ml10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xiaotong/MTBook
May 2020 - Sep 2021
a tutorial on machine translation (in Chinese)
Contributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
nlpchinesemachine-translationtranslationnmt
NiuTrans/MTVenues
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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