Dr. Congcong Wang

Dr. Congcong Wang

Assistant Professor/Lecturer

Maynooth University, Ireland

About Me

With a robust academic record in university teaching and a distinguished research profile, I have authored over 10 academic papers, many of which I led as the first author. These publications have garnered hundreds citations, reflecting their impact in the academic community. My PhD work, focused on developing cutting-edge systems for identifying and assessing crisis-related tweets, achieved the highest performance at the TREC Incident Streams, a research initiative hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. This accomplishment underscores my expertise in computational linguistics and crisis response technologies. Additionally, I bring valuable industrial research experience from my work at Huawei Ireland Research Institute. My dedication to research is complemented by a keen attention to detail, a strong sense of responsibility, and an enthusiasm for open-source projects and architectural design.

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

Specializing in computational linguistics and text analysis with a focus on crisis-related content.

Weak Supervision Learning

Developing innovative approaches for learning with limited labeled data.

Deep Learning

Applying advanced neural network architectures to solve complex NLP tasks.

Selected Publications

Using Pseudo-Labelled Data for Zero-Shot Text Classification

Congcong Wang, Paul Nulty, David Lillis (2022)

27th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2022)

Crisis Domain Adaptation Using Sequence-to-sequence Transformers

Congcong Wang, Paul Nulty, David Lillis (2021)

18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)

Transformer-based Multi-task Learning for Disaster Tweet Categorisation

Congcong Wang, Paul Nulty, David Lillis (2021)

18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)

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Professional Experience

Assistant Professor/Lecturer

Maynooth University, Ireland

August 2024 - Present

Research on Natural Language Processing and teaching undergraduate modules including Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Computing for Engineering and Probability and Statistics.

Lecturer

Maynooth International Engineering College, Fuzhou University (MIEC), China

October 2023 - July 2024

Teaching Computer Science related modules through English, supervising undergraduate projects, and coordinating with teaching assistants.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University College Dublin, Ireland

January 2023 - December 2023

Research on hierarchical multi-label classification for legal documents and development of demonstrator applications.

Open Source Projects

TTT

A package for fine-tuning HuggingFace's Transformers with TPUs

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Autocoder

A basic and simple tool for code auto completion

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Transection

A tool for fine-tuning sequence-to-sequence Transformers for English to Chinese Translation

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Contact

wangcongcongcc@gmail.com

Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Languages: Chinese (First), English (Fluent)