Dr Caren Han

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor in U.S. System) at the University of Melbourne and an honorary senior lecturer (honorary Associate Professor in U.S. System) at the University of Sydney and University of Edinburgh. I am currently co-leader of AD-NLP (Australia Deep Learning NLP Group). After my Ph.D.(in 2017), I started working at the University of Sydney and established the USYDNLP group in 2019 with Dr. Josiah Poon. My recent research interests include Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning. I am broadly interested in several research topics, including visual-linguistic multi-modal learning, abusive language detection, document layout analysis, explainable AI, and recommender systems.

News (recent outstanding news)

We organise a Workshop on Document Understanding and Intelligence at AAAI 2025 (Oct. 2024)
Our paper is accepted at Neural Computing and Applications (h index 135, Q1) (Sep. 2024)
Two of our papers are accepted at CIKM 2024 (Jul. 2024)
Our paper is accepted at Artificial Intelligence Review (Impact Factor 11.7) (Jun. 2024)
Our paper is accepted at ACL 2024 (May. 2024)
Two of our long papers are accepted at IJCAI 2024 (Apr.2024)
Our competition proposal is accepted at IJCAI 2024 (Apr. 2024)
Our tutorial proposal is accepted at IJCAI 2024 (Apr. 2024)
Our paper is accepted at ACM Computing Survey (Feb. 2024)
Our paper is accepted at EACL 2024 (Jan. 2024)
Our paper is accepted at AAAI 2024 (Dec. 2023)
Our paper is accepted at EMNLP 2023 (Oct. 2023)
Our paper is accepted at CIKM 2023 (Aug. 2023)
We organise a Workshop DocIU at CIKM 2023 - Supported by Google and Microsoft
Our paper is accepted at ECMLPKDD 2023 (Jun.2023)
Our paper is accepted at InterSpeech 2023 (May.2023)
Our paper is accepted at SIGIR 2023 (April.2023)
Our paper is accepted at Frontier Journal (Impact Factor 9.25) (March.2023)
Our Tutorial Proposal is accepted at WWW 2023 (January.2023)
Our paper(with Peking Uni) is accepted at MM 2023 (January.2023)
Our paper is accepted at WSDM 2023 (November.2022)
Our paper is accepted at AAAI 2023 (November.2022)
Three of our papers are accepted at COLING 2022 (August.2022)
Our paper is accepted at ICPR 2022 (July.2022)
Our paper is accepted at ACM Computing Survey (July.2022)
Our paper is accepted at IJCAI 2022 (June.2022)
Our paper is accepted at NAACL 2022 (May.2022)
Our paper is accepted in Knowledge and Information System Journal (April.2022)
Our paper is accepted at CVPR 2022 (March.2022)
Our paper is accepted at ICLR 2022 (March.2022)

Publications

Honors and Awards

Early Career Research Award (Physics, Math and Computing), 2023, University of Western Australia
Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award, 2018 - 2021, University of Sydney
Supervisor of the Year 2021, University of Sydney
BEST AREA PAPER AWARD, THE 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COLING 2020
BEST PAPER AWARD, The 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2020
Teacher of the Year 2020, University of Sydney
Australian Young Achiever Certificate (Teaching Excellence) 2017
University of Tasmania, Teaching Excellence Awards 2014
BEST PAPER AWARD, PKAW Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition 2012

Selected Academic Services (Recent)

2024: AAAI 2024, IJCAI 2024 (Local Committee), ARR (ACL, EMNLP, EACL, NAACL) 2024, ACMMM 2024,
2023: AAAI 2023, IJCAI 2023, ACL 2023, SIGIR 2023, Joined as an Editorial Board of NLP at the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (2023-), ARR
2022: EMNLP 2022, NAACL 2022, ACL 2022, WWW 2022, SIGIR 2022, IJCAI 2022, AAAI 2022, Tutorial Chair at AJCAI 2022
2021: EMNLP 2021, NAACL 2021, ACL 2021, WWW 2021, AAAI 2021

Teaching

Natural Language Processing (Postgraduate Course, 2024, University of Melbourne)
Natural Language Processing (Postgraduate Course, 2023, University of Western Australia) Achieved 100% Student Satisfaction
Natural Language Processing (Postgraduate Course, 2018 ~ 2022, University of Sydney) Achieved Highest Student Satisfaction in the University
Machine Learning and Data Mining (Postgraduate Course, 2020, University of Sydney)
Engineering Computing (Undergraduate Course, 2021 - 2022, University of Sydney)
Computer Analysis and Visualisation (Undergraduate Course, 2022 - 2023, University of Western Australia)

Students (Graduates)

PhD Students: Henry Weld, Jie Yang, Eileen Wang, Yihao Ding, Chen Chen, Jean Lee, Feiqi Cao, Rina Cabral, Fariza Rashid, Yan Li, Zichen Geng
Master Students: Yue Dai, Eric Pullukaran, Allen Ji, Shuo Yang, Xiang Biao
Honours Students: Jonathan Wang, Jamie Mickaill, Thye Shan Ng

Alumni

Yingru Lin (Alibaba, China), Siqu Long (IBM, China - back to PhD with me - University of Sydney), Siwen Luo (University of Western Australia), Kunze Wang (Rokt, Australia), Colin Gu (Freelancer.com ®, Australia), Rina Cabral (UNSW, Australia - back to PhD with me), Roy Luo (Huawei, China), Huichun Li (Tencent, China), Dong Lu (Opera Software International ‘Opera Browser’), Zean Wen (Microsoft, China), Hamish Ivison (Allen Institute for AI, U.S.), Alex Mirrington (Rokt, Australia), Xiaoqi Huang (Deputy, Australia), Jeffery Zeng (Amazon, Australia), Taejun Lim, Andy Bui, Zhihao Zhang (UNSW, Australia)

International Academic/Industry/Government Collaborators

Industry/Government: Australia Defense, Thales, Microsoft, FortifyEdge, Google, U.S. Naval Research Centre, U.S. AirForce Research Centre, Korea Ministry of Commerce Industry and Energy).
University/Research Centre: The University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Peking University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Pohang University of Science and Technology, Yonsei University, CSIRO, The University of Manchester, The University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge.