<div id="apDiv3">I want to thank Prof. Eduard Hovy. It is hard to evaluate how much his support means to me during the hardest time of my life. He was not like an advisor, but like an elder friend, telling an ignorant twenty-something how he should face ups and downs of life. He instilled in me the great importance of doing big work and solving big problems. Unfortunately, my pragmatic nature made me unwilling to invest time into ambitious, but risky research projects. I kept working on tiny incremental projects to satisfy my utilitarian desire for publishing. Not living up to his expectation is the biggest regret of my graduate s
Getting to know Prof.
Dan Jurafsky is the most precious part of my experience at Stanford. He perfectly exemplifies what a supportive and honorable person should be like. Over the years, I have always been taking what he did for me for granted: taking for granted that he spent 5 hours on editing every paper and correcting all the typos and grammar mistakes from a non-native English speaker; taking for granted his generous support each and every time when I experienced down times in graduate school. The opportunity of working with him and getting to know him is the most valuable part of my years at Stanford, and these experiences transcend all the tiny academic attainments in graduate school.
I want to thank Prof.
Eduard Hovy. It is hard to evaluate how much his support means to me during the hardest time of my life. He was not like an advisor, but like an elder friend, telling an ignorant twenty-something how he should face ups and downs of life. He instilled in me the great importance of doing big work and solving big problems. Unfortunately, my pragmatic nature made me unwilling to invest time into ambitious, but risky research projects. I kept working on tiny incremental projects to satisfy my utilitarian desire for publishing. Not living up to his expectation is the biggest regret of my graduate school experience.
I want to particularly thank Prof. Claire Cardie. When I was a first-year graduate student studying biology at Cornell, barely having any experience with coding but trying to switch to the field of computer science, she gave me the opportunity of being exposed to the intriguing nature of language processing using AI, and this opportunity radically changed the trajectory of my life. She invested her precious time into teaching me how to do research, and was patient as I slowly developed basic coding skills. Her support continues over years after I left Cornell. Claire perfectly shows me how to be a compassionate person, which has a significant impact on who I was, who I am and who I will be in the future.
The following is quoted from the acknowledgement section of my phd thesis.
