Dr. Wei-Yun Ma is an associate research fellow/professor in the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is also the principal investigator of the NLP lab at Academia Sinica, a.k.a CKIP lab. His research interests include NLP, machine learning, and knowledge graph. He is currently working on knowledge reasoning, Chatbot, data-to-text, multi-hop QA, and knowledge graph completion. He has published more than 50 articles in international conferences such as AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SigDial, COLING, EACL, WWW, etc., and received outstanding reviewer award for ACL 2021.

Based on his work on AAAI 2020, he released an integrated toolkit of Chinese Word Segmentation, POS tagging and NER (aka CkipTagger), which has been the most popular NLP package in Taiwan. (1.5K stars at Github). He participated in the first Formosa Grand Challenge–Talk to AI, held by Taiwan government in 2019, and won third place, and got reported in the media. Dr. Ma earned his Ph.D. degree from Computer Science Department at Columbia University, New York in 2014. During his studies, he worked on multilingual question answering and machine translation, and also participated in some prestigious projects in the US, such as GALE and STAGES.