Wenhu Chen

Wenhu Chen will be joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in July 2022. Wenhu is currently a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is advised by William Wang and Xifeng Yan. He also has an MSc in electronics engineering (2016) from RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and a BSc in electronics engineering (2014) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.

Wenhu’s research aims to design more powerful natural language processing models to bridge the gap between human language and real-world data including text, graphs, tables, and images. In particular, Wenhu has made substantial advances in three areas: neuro-symbolic reasoning for explainability, multi-hop and single hop reasoning for inference from heterogeneous data, and externalizing factual knowledge in language modelling.