Kezhen Chen | Kezhen Chen's Homepage

I am an AI research Scientist at the (Google) X, the moonshot factory. We work on using State-of-the-art AI technologies in the agricultural domain and aim to use technology to feed the planet's population. I earned my Computer Science Ph.D. at Northwestern University. When I was a Ph.D. student, I worked in the Qualitative Reasoning Group advised by Prof. Ken Forbus. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 2016. I was a research assistant at UofR and worked with Prof. Jiebo Luo, Prof. Ehsan Hoque, and Prof. Henry Kautz.

I am interested in Artificial Intelligence, Qualitative Reasoning, Analogy, Cognitive Modeling, Vision and Language, Neural-Symbolic, Deep Learning. I am currently building a multi-tasks vision-language system that combines deep learning models and symbolic reasoning systems. I worked as a Research Intern on the Neural-Symbolic project at MSR during the summer of 2019 and summer 2020.

My CV can be downloaded here.

News:

[06/22] I am excited to announce that I joined (Google) X, the moonshot factory as an AI research scientist
[09/21] I will graduate in June 2022. I am actively seeking academic opportunities and researcher positions from industries
[09/21] My paper is accepted by Findings of EMNLP. We released a Image Commenting dataset - NICE dataset
[02/21] Our paper is accepted by AAAI 2021
[07/20] Our paper is accepted as a poster paper by CogSci 2020
[01/20] Our paper is accepted by ICML 2020
[12/19] Our paper receives the Best paper awards at NeurIPS KR2ML workshop. You can find the news from Northwestern University and the post from Microsoft Research
[02/19] Our paper is accepted as an Oral at AAAI 2019
[02/18] Our paper is accepted by AAAI 2018