Biography

I am a first-year PhD student in Computation, Cognition, and Language (NLP) at Language and Technology Lab and a member of Downing College, University of Cambridge. I am supervised by Dr Ivan Vulic and Prof Anna Korhonen. I am also a student researcher at Google Research, collaborating with Google DeepMind.

Before starting my PhD, I was an undergraduate student reading Engineering Science at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. I received my second Master degree in MSc Machine Learning, University College London. I graduated top of my class.

I am always interested in modular, efficient, and reward-driven responsible intelligence.

Recent News

  • Jul 2023: I am reviewing for EMNLP 2023.
  • Jul 2023: Paper accepted at TACL 2023!
  • Jun 2023: Start as Student Researcher at Google Research.
  • May 2023: Attended EACL 2023 in-person. Great to meet everyone in Dubrovnik.
  • Apr 2023: Paper accepted at IJCAI 2023.
  • Feb 2023: I am reviewing for ACL 2023.
  • Jan 2023: Paper accepted at EACL 2023.
  • Oct 2022: I am reviewing for EMNLP 2022.
  • Oct 2022: Start my PhD at LTL.
Interests
  • Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
  • Prompt Learning and Optimisation
  • Large Language Models
  • Multi-Lingual Dialogs
  • Multi-Modal Learning
Education
  • PhD in Computation, Cognition, and Language, Oct 2022 -

    University of Cambridge

  • MSc in Machine Learning, 2020 - 2021

    University College London

  • BA, MEng in Engineering Science, 2015 - 2019

    University of Oxford

Selected Publications

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(2023). Multi3WOZ: A Multilingual, Multi-Domain, Multi-Parallel Dataset for Training and Evaluating Culturally Adapted Task-Oriented Dialog Systems. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).

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(2023). AutoPEFT: Automatic Configuration Search for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. arXiv:2301.12132.

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(2023). GreenPLM: Cross-Lingual Transfer of Monolingual Large Language Models at Almost No Cost. The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

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(2023). XQA-DST: Multi-Domain and Multi-Lingual Dialogue State Tracking. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Google DeepMind
Student Researcher
Jul 2023 – Present London, UK
 
 
 
 
 
Google Research
Student Researcher
Jun 2023 – Present London, UK
 
 
 
 
 
Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge
Research Intern
Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 Cambridge, UK
 
 
 
 
 
Tencent
Game Designer
Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 Shenzhen, China
 
 
 
 
 
RACE, UK Atomic Energy Authority
Robotics Intern
Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 Culham, UK
 
 
 
 
 
Battery Intelligence Lab, University of Oxford
Research Intern
Jul 2017 – Sep 2017 Oxford, UK

Contact

  • hz416 [at] cam.ac.uk (Cambridge) / hzhouml [at] google.com (Google)
  • LTL, University of Cambridge, UK