Yu (Hugo) Chen

Menlo Park, United States

Yu (Hugo) Chen is a Research Scientist at Meta AI. He got his PhD degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning (Deep Learning) and Natural Language Processing, with a particular emphasis on the fast-growing field of Graph Neural Networks and their applications in various domains. His work has been published at top-ranked conferences including but not limited to NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, NAACL, KDD, WSDM, TheWebConf, ISWC, and AMIA. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of AAAI DLGMA’20. He was one of the book chapter contributors of the book "Graph Neural Networks: Foundations, Frontiers, and Applications". He delivered a series of DLG4NLP tutorials at NAACL'21, SIGIR'21, KDD'21, IJCAI'21, AAAI’22 and TheWebConf’22. His work has been covered in popular technology and marketing publications including World Economic Forum, TechXplore, TechCrunch, Ad Age and Adweek. He is a co-inventor of 4 US patents.