Li Sheng (Chinese: 李生; born 1943), is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China.
After that, he pursued in vast topics of natural language processing, including machine translation, information retrieval, question answering and applied artificial intelligence.
Most of them are now working as the chief researcher in various NLP groups of universities and companies in China, including several world-known NLP scholars, such as Wang Haifeng[6] of Baidu, Zhou Ming of Microsoft Research,[7] Zhang Min (张民) of Soochow University (China), and Zhao Tiejun (赵铁军) and Liu Ting (刘挺) of HIT.
[8] He scaled this top level academic organization in China up to more than 3000 registered members, and promoted NLP into several national projects for research or industry development.
Originates from Machine Translation Research Group of Computer Science Department, Harbin Institute of Technology, which was started Li in 1985.
Based on this jointly lab, the cooperation between HIT and Microsoft gradually extended to the areas of machine translation, information retrieval, speech recognition and processing, natural language understanding.
Since 2005, the lab has also been organizing a summer camp in Harbin Institute of Technology, and approximately 150 faculty members and students from universities in China have participated.
In contrast to his previous NSF grants for different NLP issues, Li explored in his last PI project on key technologies in personalized IR, together with researchers from Tsinghua University and Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science.