Shaobin Xu

PhD Student

  • ME, Tongji University - China
  • BE, Tongji University - China
  • Hometown: Fuzhou, Fujian, China
  • Field of Study: Computer Science
  • PhD Advisor: David Smith

Shaobin Xu is a PhD student in the Computer Science program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor David Smith. Shaobin studies and researches natural language processing, having earned a bachelor's and master's degree in engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Shaobin worked at a gaming company before coming to Northeastern.

I earned my master's degree in Tongji University, focusing on new media art. After a year of employment in a game company, I came to Northeastern for a PhD degree.

I am interested in natural language processing and computational linguistics. I did not picture myself as a PhD student when I was an undergraduate. But after experiencing both research and an industry internship, I decided that research was my niche, and so I decided to go for a PhD.

I would like to apply the techniques of natural language processing and machine learning to help better deal with the large set of texts in daily life.

I think the most fascinating aspect of natural language is the ambiguity and uncertainty that it brings. I hope my work will be able to make the understanding of the texts in the perspective of machine more effective.

I have not yet decided.

I grew up in Fuzhou, a southeastern city of China. I moved to Shanghai for my bachelor’s and master’s degrees and spent a significant amount of time there.

I studied at Tongji University. Shanghai had always been a city that I wanted to explore and to live in for a couple of years.