Frank Guoqing Luo

Frank Guoqing Luo

gluo[at]ualberta.ca

Hello!

I am Guoqing Luo, a first-year PhD student at University of Alberta. Currently, I am supervised by Prof. Lili Mou in Alberta NLP Lab. I received my master’s degree at University of Alberta, my bachelor’s degree from School of Computer Science in Wuhan Univeristy.

My research interest includes machine learning, text generation and large language models. Previously I was a visiting student at Cambridge University and Harvard University, I finished several projects during these programs. Please check my CV for further information.

About me

In my normal life, I like playing tennis and watching foreign movies, and I spare no efforts to study and do research in the lab during the rest of my time. I love to communicate with others about everything. Active thinking is my biggest advantage, and I always try to find effective approaches to solve problems.

I also care for environmental problems on earth, I once volunteered in Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka to protect sea turtles and orphan elephants for 7 days and learned a lot from the experience, you may read it here.

Besides, I hope everyone be safe in 2021, stay at home and take good care of yourself.

News

  • [10/2023] Got my first first-author paper accepted to EMNLP 2023 findings, thanks to all the collaborators!

  • [04/2022] Got a papper accepted to LREC 2022, thanks to all the collaborators!

  • [09/2021] Start my master at University of Alberta, Canada, highly excited about the study life!

  • [06/2021] I graduated from Wuhan University!

  • [03/2021] I will be a thesis-based master in the Computing Science Department at University of Alberta.

  • [01/2021] I become a NLP research intern in ByteDance AI Lab SA Group!

  • [07/2020] I get S. I. Komarova Scholarship for academic excellence of Valeon Scholarship program!

  • [04/2020] The team I lead wins Honorable Mention Award in Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM) with my teammate JianDing Zhang and Xi Chen!

  • [03/2020] I become a research intern in StatNLP supervised by Prof.Wei Lu! Looking forward to going to Singapore in summer!

Memorable Experience

  • Took part in the interview of Tencent and CUHK early admission program, you may find evaluable information from this article. [15/05/2020–25/05/2020]

  • Participated in MCM/ICM 2020, you may find evaluable information from my article. [18/02/2020–14/02/2020]

  • Participated in CUMCM 2019, read it from my article. [12/09/2019–15/09/2019]

Miscellaneous

  • “Excelsior” is my motto.

  • I’m also a basketball fan (of LeBron James and LA Lakers) and played SG. I am great at three-point shots and my nickname in middle/high school is “Luo Allen” (Homophonic to “Ray Allen”), although I seldom play basketball now.

  • My favorite players are Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James and Michael Jordan, I find that all the great players have a stable and long-lasting professional career.

  • I am a big fan of Taylor Swift, I went to see her conert once in Gillette Stadium, Boston in 2018, which was deeply impressive! Here are some photos & videos to share.