Vincent Ng

Vincent Ng

Professor - Computer Science
 
972-883-4581
ECSS 3.404
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D. - Computer Science
Cornell University - 2004
B.S. - Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University - 1997

Research Areas

Research Interests
Natural language processing

Publications

Machine/Deep Learning for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review. Simin Wang, Liguo Huang, Amiao Gao, Jidong Ge, Tengfei Zhang, Haitao Feng, Ishna Satyarth, Ming Li, He Zhang, and Vincent Ng. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 49(3), 1188-1231, 2023. 2023 - Publication
PairSpanBERT: An Enhanced Language Model for Bridging Resolution. Hideo Kobayashi, Yufang Hou and Vincent Ng. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL), 2023. 2023 - Publication
Multimodal Propaganda Processing. Shengjie Li and Vincent Ng. Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.  2023 - Publication
CrossCodeBench: Benchmarking Cross-Task Generalization of Source Code Models. Changan Niu, Chuanyi Li, Vincent Ng and Bin Luo. Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (Research Track) (ICSE), 2023.  2023 - Publication
An Empirical Comparison of Pre-Trained Models of Source Code. Changan Niu, Chuanyi Li, Vincent Ng, Dongxiao Chen, Jidong Ge and Bin Luo. Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (Research Track) (ICSE), 2023.  2023 - Publication
Predicting Product Review Helpfulness - A Hybrid Method. Li Kong, Chuangyi Li, Jidong Ge, Vincent Ng, and Bin Luo. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 15(4), 2213--2225, 2022. 2022 - Publication
DiscoSense: Commonsense Reasoning with Discourse Connectives. Prajjwal Bhargava and Vincent Ng. Proceedings of the 2022 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022.  2022 - Publication
End-to-End Neural Discourse Deixis Resolution in Dialogue. Shengjie Li and Vincent Ng. Proceedings of the 2022 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022. 2022 - Publication

Awards

ICSE'24 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - ACM [2024]
AAAI-20 Blue Sky Idea Award - CCC [2020]
ESEC/FSE'19 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - ACM [2019]
ECS Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award - UTD [2019]

Appointments

Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2017–Present]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2011–2017]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2004–2011]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

News Articles

Three UTD CS Professors are Among This Year’s UTD Office of Research Seed Grant Winners
Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports
Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony
UT Dallas CS Faculty Researchers Have Four Papers Accepted Into Internationally Renowned Artificial Intelligence Conference
UT Dallas Researchers Have Five Papers Accepted Into Prominent Software Engineering Conference

Activities

Journal Editorial Boards
  • Editor-in-Chief, ACL Rolling Review (2023-now)
  • Associate editor,  Artificial Intelligence (2021-now)
  • Action editor, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020-now)
  • Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2016-2023)
  •  Editorial board member, Computational Linguistics (2014-2016)
Conference Committees

Tutorials
  • AAAI 2018 Tutorial (Feb 3, 2018): Recent Advances and Applications in Markov Logic Networks (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
  • IJCAI 2017 Tutorial (Aug 21, 2017): Markov Logic Networks: Recent Advances and Practical Applications (with D. Venugopal)
  • EMNLP 2016 Tutorial (Nov 1, 2016): Advanced Markov Logic Techniques for Scalable Joint Inference in NLP (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
  • IJCAI 2016 Tutorial (July 11, 2016): Coreference Resolution: Successes and Challenges
  • Tutorial given at the 10th CIPS Summer School on Human Language Technology (July 24, 2015): Coreference Resolution

Workshop Organizer

University Committees
  • Member, Honors Advisory Council, 2023–now.
  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee for interviewing candidates for the Hobson Wildenthal Honors College, 2022.
  • Member, Senate Committee on Qualifications of Academic Personnel (CQ), 2019–2020.
  • Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Effective Teaching (2015-2017)
  • Member, UT Dallas ROTA selection committee (2017)
  • Member, selection committee for President's Award for Undergraduate Teaching for Tenured/Tenure-track and Contingent Faculty (2017)

Department Committees
  • Director, Computer Science Computing Scholars (CS2) program, 2022–now.
  • Member, Computer Science TA Selection Committee, 2022–2024.
  • Member, Computer Science Teaching Awards Committee, 2023.
  • Faculty mentor, CS 4485 (Senior Design), Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023.
  • Chair, Jonsson School 2021 Best Teacher and TA Awards Committee (for Computer Science), 2021.
  • Member, Computer Science Teaching Awards Committee, 2023.
  • Judge, AIS Presentation Night, 2023.
  • Judge, Hack2, 2023.
  • Judge, HackUTD, 2022.
  • Judge, HackAI, 2021.
  • Member, Computer Science Teaching Awards Committee, 2020.
  • Member, Computer Science Annual Review Committee, 2018–2020.
  • Member, Computer Science Ad Hoc Committee on giving voting rights to all senior lecturers for academic matters,
  • 2018.
  • Faculty advisor, UTDesign project on Music Composition Using Machine Learning, Spring 2016.
  • Co-instructor, BIOL 1V00.003: Topics in Biological Sciences, Fall 2013, Spring 2016.
  • Coordinator, Intelligent Systems Group, 2012–2013.
  • Founding member, Computer Science Computing Scholars Program committee, 2013.
  • Member, Computer Science Web Contents committee, 2012.
  • Member, Computer Science Ph.D. committee, 2012–now.
  • Member, Computer Science scholarship committee, 2011–now.
  • Member, Savio Monteiro’s Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee (Computer Engineering), Fall 2011.
  • Member, Computer Science faculty search committee, 2009.
  • Judge, ComputingFest, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
  • Member, CS 4485 (Senior Design Project) ad-hoc committee, Fall 2007.
  • Member, Computer Science equipment committee, 2007–2010.
  • Judge, Jonsson School Forum student presentations, Spring 2006.
  • Member, Computer Science graduate admissions committee, 2005–2008.

Miscellaneous
  • Local organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) Dallas site (2009-2023)
  •  Review panel, National Science Foundation (2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020)
  •  Ad-hoc proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation (2009) 
  • Recent program committees and conference review panels:
    •  EMNLP-CoNLL 2012, AAAI 2012, ACL 2012, NAACL HLT 2012, EACL 2012, WWW 2012, SIGDIAL 2012, ROBUS-UNSUP 2012, ISPAN 2012
  •  Journal referee (recent)
    •   Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2012), International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2012)
  •  Panelist, Student Research Workshops at EACL 2009 and NAACL HLT 2009

Affiliations

Human Language Technology Research Institute
Center for Machine Learning and Language Processing