Picture of Hao Zhang
homepage [http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~zhanghao/]
area AI / NLP
advisor Dan Gildea
citizenship China
What are your research interests?
I'm interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially the tasks of parsing and translation.

Where are you from originally?
Before coming to Rochester, I was doing my master's study at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Even before that, I was a CS undergrad at Peking (Beijing) University.

What do you do on a typical day?
I am a full time researcher now after entering the 4th year. Everyday is about the same. :) Regularly I do paper reading, writing, programming, and discussions with my advisor during the workdays. I go for lunch with my seventh floor floor-mates. Each time we choose one of the three cafeterias in the Medical Center according to a distribution that is parameterized by the set of people going together. Since August, I also run for 2 miles in the Genesee Valley Park in the afternoon (almost) every other day.

What are your goals for this year?
I'll finish the bulk of my thesis work.

What do you plan to do after you graduate?
I want to stay in academia.

How do you like to spend your free time?
I like reading and watching movies when I am free.

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