Biography

As an NLP Engineer at Bytedance LLM in Singapore, I focus on refining large language models to drive innovation in natural language generation, with my current project centered on building character-based LLMs. My expertise in NLP was further developed at TikTok, where I deployed transformative solutions for customer service automation. Previously, I contributed to groundbreaking AI research at AIST, Japan, and worked on enhancing AI technologies at Toyota. My journey in AI commenced at Huawei Technologies, where I played a key role in advancing AI model development. My career is fueled by a passion for the intersection of AI, NLP, and technological innovation.

Education

• 2021.10 - 2022.6
  Visiting Scholar (UCLA)
  Supervisor: Prof. Nanyun Peng
• 2017.4 - 2022.9
  Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)
  Supervisor: Prof. Hideki Nakayama
• 2012.9 - 2016.7
  B.Eng. (Shandong University)

Research Experience

• Character-Centric Story Visualization via Visual Planning and Token Alignment
  H Chen, R Han, T Wu, H Nakayama, N Peng
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2022) (long paper)
• StoryER: Automatic Story Evaluation via Ranking, Rating and Reasoning
  H Chen, V Minh-duc, H Takamura, Y Miyao, H Nakayama
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) (long paper)
• NOC-REK: Novel Object Captioning with Retrieved Vocabulary from External Knowledge
  DM Vo, H Chen, A Sugimoto, H Nakayama
  The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR 2022)
• Go Back in Time: Generating Flashbacks in Stories with Event Temporal Prompts
  R Han, H Chen, Y Tian, N Peng
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL2022)
• SciXGen: A Scientific Paper Dataset for Context-Aware Text Generation
  H Chen, H Takamura, H Nakayama
  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: (EMNLP 2021) (long paper)
• GraphPlan: Story Generation by Planning with Event GraphPlan
  H Chen, R Shu, H Takamura, H Nakayama
  The 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2021) (long paper)
• Commonsense Knowledge Aware Concept Selection For Diverse and Informative Visual Storytelling
  H Chen, Y Huang, H Takamura, H Nakayama
  Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021)
• Object Recognition With Continual Open Set Domain Adaptation for Home Robot
  I Kishida, H Chen, M Baba, J Jin, A Amma, H Nakayama
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV2021)
• Semantic Aware Attention Based Deep Object Co-segmentation
  H Chen, Y Huang, H Nakayama
  14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2018)

Work Experience

• NLP Engineer at Bytedance LLM, Singapore
  2023.4 - Present
  Working on LLM (large language model) to improve natural language generation capabilities for various applications, such as Doubao.
• NLP Engineer at Tiktok Ecommerce Intelligent Customer Service, Singapore
  2022.9 - 2023.4
  Developed and integrated NLP solutions to enhance the customer service experience through automation and intelligence.
• Research Assistant at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
  2019.8 - 2021.10
  Engaged in cutting-edge research to advance the field of artificial intelligence, focusing on natural language processing.
• Project Cooperation at Toyota, Japan
  2019.10 - 2020.1
  Collaborated on a project aimed at improving HSR (human support robot) through image recognition on continue learning.
• Research Assistant (Excellent intern student) at Huawei Technologies, Japan
  2018.11 - 2019.4
  Contributed to the development of AI models for image recognition and detection.

Language

• ChineseNative
• JapaneseFluent
• EnglishProfessional