Jia Xu

Jia Xu is Assistant Professor developing state-of-the-art NLP systems with competition-winning machine translation architectures. His research advances multilingual modeling and latent concept analysis.

Education:

• PhD Computer Science, RWTH-Aachen University

Innovations include byte-based multilingual models for endangered languages, uncertainty learning methods, and the ConceptX framework for transformer interpretation. Systems consistently rank first in WMT competitions across language pairs.

Awards:

• WMT 2022 1st Place: Code-Mixing MT
• WMT 2018 1st Place: French-English Biomedical
• Alexa Prize 2023 2nd Place (Socialbot)

Leads research funded by NSF, Amazon, and eBay while serving as area chair for top ML conferences.