Senior Researcher

Tencent Inc.
Shenzhen, China

[Google Scholar] [Github] [CV (English) | (中文)]

Email: dryao [at] tencent.com

General

I am currently a senior researcher at Tencent. Before that, I was a Postdoc researcher at Northwestern University, working with Prof. Yuan Luo. In 2017, I got my Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University. Before that, I received my B.E.degree from Sichuan University in 2012. My research interest is primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Data Mining. You can find me at dryao [AT] tencent.com or learn more about me with my [Google Scholar], [Github], and [CV].

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Medical Informatics.

Selected Publications [Full List]

• Liang Yao, Jiazhen Peng, Shenggong Ji, Qiang Liu, Hongyun Cai, Feng He, Xu Cheng.
  Friend Ranking in Online Games via Pre-training Edge Transformers.
  Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Chengsheng Mao, Yuan Luo.
  Graph Convolutional Networks for Text Classification.
  33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19).
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao.
  Large Language Models are Contrastive Reasoners.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08211.
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Jiazhen Peng, Chengsheng Mao, Yuan Luo.
  Exploring Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Completion.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13916.
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Chengsheng Mao, Yuan Luo.
  KG-BERT: BERT for Knowledge Graph Completion.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03193.
  [PDF] [Code]

• Liang Yao, Zhe Jin, Chengsheng Mao, Yin Zhang, Yuan Luo.
  Traditional Chinese medicine clinical records classification with BERT and domain specific corpora.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Volume 26, Issue 12, December 2019, Pages 1632–1636
  [PDF] [Data & Code]

• Liang Yao, Yin Zhang, Baogang Wei, Wenjin Zhang, Zhe Jin.
  A Topic Modeling Approach for Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Volume: 30, Issue: 6, 01 June 2018)
  [PDF] [Data & Code]

• Liang Yao, Yin Zhang, Baogang Wei, Zhe Jin, Rui Zhang, Yangyang Zhang, Qinfei Chen.
  Incorporating Knowledge Graph Embeddings into Topic Modeling.
  31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17).
  [PDF] [Code]

Academic Services

• Conference PC Member/Reviewer: AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, ECML-PKDD.
• Journal Reviewer: TKDE, Neural Networks, ACM Computing Surveys, JBI, etc.

Selected Awards