Wei FAN

Welcome! I’m a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof.Yangqiu Song in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before that, I got my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and M.Sc. in Big Data Technology from HKUST. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss my research further.

News

• Jan 2025: One paper is accepted by NAACL 2025.
• Nov 2024: Our paper on legal grounding in privacy domain has been awarded the outstanding paper 🏆 at EMNLP 2024!
• Sep 2024: Three papers are accepted by EMNLP 2024. Topics cover legal alignment, theory of mind, and text-to-table summarization. See you in Miami!
• May 2024: Two papers are accepted by ACL 2024. Topics cover abstract knowledge and differential privacy. See you in Thailand!
• Mar 2024: One paper is accepted by DASFAA 2024. Topics cover hierarchical reinforcement learning and conversational recommendation. Welcome to my oral presentation in Gifu, Japan.
• Aug 2023: Attending IJCAI 2023 at Macao as a student volunteer.

Research Interest

I am generally interested in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning and actively focus on the following research areas:

• Legal Reasoning: Legal Rule Induction, GoldCoin, Privacy Checklist
• Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Reasoning: Chain-of-Choice

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy · HKUST · Computer Science · Sep.2023-Now
• Master of Science · HKUST · Big Data Technology · Sep.2022-Jul.2023
• Bachelor of Engineering · HUST · Computer Science · Sep.2017-Jun.2021
• Visiting Student · UoM · Computer Science · Jul.2019-Aug.2019

Internship

Amazon Rufus LLM, Amazon Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA

• Applied Scientist Intern, Jun.2025-Oct.2025

Artificial Intelligence Thrust, HKUST, Guangzhou, China

• Research Intern, Jun.2022-Aug.2022

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review (2023 - Now)
Conference Volunteer: IJCAI (2023)

Teaching

• COMP 4222: Machine Learning with Structured Data (Fall 2024)
• MSBD 5018: Natural Language Processing (Fall 2024)
• COMP 1021: Introduction to Computer Science (Spring 2024)
• CSIT 6000R: Natural Language Processing (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

Contact

You can reach me at wfanag [at] connect [dot] ust [dot] hk.