Vincent Ng

Ph.D. - Computer Science
Cornell University - 2004

B.S. - Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University - 1997

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

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]

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

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

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

• Best Paper Award Committee, COLING 2016, NLPCC 2017
• Program Co-Chair, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, NLPCC 2018
• Senior Area Chair, IJCAI 2021, EMNLP 2020, IJCAI 2021, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, COLING 2022, AACL-IJCNLP 2022, ACL 2023, IJCNLP-AACL 2023, LREC-COLING 2024
• Area Chair/Co-Chair, ACL 2012, NAACL HLT 2015, COLING 2016, NLPCC 2017, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, NAACL HLT 2019, ACL 2019, IJCAI 2019, ACL 2020, IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, AAAI 2021, NAACL HLT 2021, AAAI 2022, IJCAI-ECAI 2022, AAAI 2023, EMNLP 2023, AAAI 2024
• Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2016, AAAI 2017, AAAI 2018, AAAI 2019, AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2023
• Workshop Co-Chair, EMNLP 2018
• Tutorial Co-Chair, IJCNLP 2013
• Student Scholarship Chair and Student Volunteer Coordinator, EMNLP 2016
• Steering Committee, SemEval 2017

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

• EMNLP 2023 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2023)
• COLING 2022 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2022)
• EMNLP 2021 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2021)
• COLING 2020 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2020)
• NAACL HLT 2019 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2019)
• NAACL HLT 2018 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2018)
• ACL 2018 Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-5)
• EACL 2017 Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017)
• COLING 2016 Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-3)
• NAACL HLT 2016 Workshop on Coreference Resolution beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2016)
• The 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-8)

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

Human Language Technology Research Institute

Center for Machine Learning and Language Processing