Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung is an Assistant Professor in McGill’s School of Computer Science, where he co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and joined McGill in 2015. His research group focuses on developing computational methods for understanding text and for generating language that is fluent and appropriate to the context. Several current projects include extracting events from text, automatic summarization, and leveraging external knowledge for language understanding. Dr. Cheung is a member of the Mila Research Institute, and is an academic advisor for MSR Montreal.
- Research Interests: NLP, Summarization, Computational Semantics
- Personal Website: https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jcheung/
- Email: jcheung @ cs.mcgill.ca
Students
- Aishik Chakraborty, PhD
- Andre Cianflone, PhD
- Ian Porada, PhD
- Jad Kabbara, PhD
- Kushal Arora, PhD
- Malik H. Altakrori, PhD
- Meng Cao, PhD
- Yue Dong, PhD
- Akshatha Arodi Nagaraja, MSc
- Andrei Mircea Romascanu, MSc
- Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano, MSc
- Clément Jumel, MSc
- Jingyi He, MSc
- Jules Gagnon-Marchand, MSc
- Martin Pömsl, MSc
Past Courses
- COMP-550 : Natural Language Processing, Fall 2020
Past Students
- Ali Emami, PhD, 2021, Assistant Professor, Brock University
- Jiapeng Wu, MSc, 2021,
- Matt Grenander, MSc, 2020, PhD at University of Edinburgh