Liang Ding (丁亮)

NLP Researcher


E-mail: liangding.liam@gmail.com
Twitter: @liangdingNLP
GitHub: @alphadl
Scholar: Google Scholar Profile
WeChat: Liam_DL1469


Biography

I work as the Chief Scientist at a generative AI research and product startup (raised $50M+), spearheading the R&D of the foundation models and the product applications. Previously, I was a Research Scientist and led the NLP research group [photo] at JD Explore Academy, where I was a member of the Doctoral Management Trainee (DMT) program (a top-tier talent program in JD.com, Inc.). I received my Ph.D. from The University of Sydney, supervised by Prof. Dacheng Tao (IEEE/ACM Fellow).

I have published over 70 papers in top-tier AI/NLP venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, TPAMI), with a recent focus on large language models (training, alignment, evaluations, multilinguality, multimodality) and their agentic applications in the real world. My work has been recognized with several honors, including the WAIC SAIL Award (highest honor at World AI Conference), the JD Technology Golden Award (highest tech award at JD.com Inc.), and an ACL Best Paper Nomination. I also led the development of models that secured 1st place in world-renowned challenges, including SuperGLUE (surpassing human performance), GLUE, WMT (2019-2022), and IWSLT 2021.

I am an IEEE Senior Member (elevated in 2025). I actively serve the community as an Area Chair for major AI/NLP conferences, including NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. I was also recognized as a Distinguished Reviewer for ACM TWEB and an Outstanding Reviewer for KDD 2025. I served as a researcher at SIAS, Zhejiang University.

I am always open to collaborations!

📣 NEWS: I have several full-time and intern positions on frontier topics, e.g., RLHF, adaptive rubric reward modeling, long-horizon memory, and lifelong learning for Agentic AI. Please reach out if you're interested in joining.

📣 I have several internship positions. Self-motivated students with experience in NLP and LLM are welcome.

News

Publications

† indicates intern/student under my supervision. ✉️ means corresponding author.

Competitions and Shared Tasks

  • SuperGLUE Benchmark, ranked 1st with an average score of 91.3 (since Oct. 8 2022).
  • WMT 2022, ranked 1st on Chinese<=>English, German<=>English, Czech<=>English, and English=>Russian, 2nd on Russian=>English and Japanese=>English, and 3rd on English=>Japanese General Translation Tasks, respectively.
  • GLUE Benchmark, ranked 1st with an average score of 91.3 (since Jan. 1 2022).
  • IWSLT 2021, ranked 1st on Swahili-English speech translation task.
  • WMT 2020, ranked 2nd on German-to-English chat translation shared task.
  • Tencent AI Innovation Competition, ranked 3rd on "input tips in human-computer interaction translation" problem.
  • WMT 2019, ranked 1st on Finnish-to-English news translation shared task.
  • CWMT 2017, ranked 3rd on the Japanese-to-Chinese patent translation shared task.

Professional Services

  • Area Chair: NeurIPS 2025, ACL (2022-2025), EMNLP (2022-2025), NAACL (2024-2025), EACL (2023-2025), ACL Rolling Review.
  • Program Committee (Selected): ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, KDD (2025 Outstanding Reviewer), CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI.
  • Journal Reviewer (Selected): Nature Communications, AIJ, TACL, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMM, ACM TWEB (Distinguished Reviewer), CL, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE/ACM TASLP, Neural Networks.
  • Membership: IEEE (Senior Member 2025-; Member 2020-2025), ACL (2020-).

Selected Awards

  • 2025: Senior Member, IEEE.
  • 2025: Outstanding Reviewer, KDD.
  • 2023: Best Paper Nomination, ACL.
  • 2023: Technology Golden Award (京东集团技术金项奖), JD.com, Inc. (Highest technical award at JD.com).
  • 2022: SAIL Award (Superior AI Leader), World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).
  • 2022: Distinguished Reviewer, ACM Transactions on the Web.
  • 2018: Outstanding Graduate, Beijing Municipal Education Commission.
  • 2013: National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China.

*Last updated on 10/2025.