Hi, I am Yan Shao (Chinese: 邵研 Pinyin: Shào Yán), a PhD candidate in computational linguistics at Uppsala University, Sweden.

My research interests include:

• Deep Learning
• Sequence processing
• Automatic summarisation
• Machine translation
• Syntactic parsing
• Cross-lingual information retrieval

Currently I am teaching:

• Machine Learning
• Basic Text Analysis
• Machine Translation

I am a person who likes to see the world. I spend a lot of time (and money :D) travelling in different places.

I am a big fan of music. Apart from meeting and drinking beers with my friends, I spend most of my leisure time to play guitar.

I am not a big fan of doing sports, but I force myself into the gym a couple of times every week just in order to have a healthy life.

I used to be quite addicted to DOTA. Now I don’t play so much, but I still follow the updates and watch the professional events.