Hi! I'm Xinrui He, a first-year graduate student in the M.S. program  in Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS), at Language Technologies Institute (LTI), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). 
My research interests fall in Information Retrieval, Dialogue System and Machine Learning. 
I graduated with degree of Bachelor of Science, SUMMA CUM LAUDE from Peking University in 2016.

Xinrui He

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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hxr@cmu.edu
Professional Experience
Jul, 2015 - Sep, 2015
Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University    
Research Intern
Project: User Engagement Modeling in Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts.  I help to develop a multimodal spoken chat-bot in Mandarin and do experiments to compare engagement differences between dialogue system for Chinese culture and American culture.
Advisor: Professor Alex Rudnicky, one of the original developers of CMU Sphinx. Sphinx is the first continuous-speech, speaker-independent recognition system in the world.    
Publication: Zhou Yu, Xinrui He, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky, User Engagement Modeling in Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts, to appear IVA 2016
Project: ​Detecting and Fixing Precision-Specific Operations for Measuring Floating-Point Errors. This Project won excellent score in supervised independent study among 79 groups and displayed in 2015 Peking University Young Scientists Symposium on Informatics.  
Advisor: Professor Lu Zhang, Researcher Yingfei Xiong
Publication: Ran Wang, Daming Zou, Xinrui He, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang, Gang Huang,  Detecting and Fixing Precision-Specific Operations for Measuring Floating-Point Errors, to appear FSE 2016
Jan, 2014 - Jun, 2016​ 
Institute of Software at Peking University
Research Assistant
Jun, 2014 - Nov, 2014 
Google Co., Ltd, Beijing    
Intern
Team: Beijing mobile team.
Manager: Nan Zhang
Mentor: Derek Chen, Ada Zhang
Project: I build up a  log profiler website for intelligent information retrieval in distributed system.
​Honor: Google Excellent Student Scholarship of 2015
Education
2009 - 2012
Nankai High School.

2016
    Carnegie Mellon University.
Language Technologies Institute, 
M.S.  in Intelligent Information Systems
2012 - 2016
Peking University.
    School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)    
Major: Computer Science and Technology
Publications & Projects
  • Zhou Yu, Xinrui He, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky, User Engagement Modeling in Virtual Agents Under Different Cultural Contexts, to appear IVA 2016
  • Ran Wang, Daming Zou, Xinrui He, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang, Gang Huang,  Detecting and Fixing Precision-Specific Operations for Measuring Floating-Point Errors, to appear FSE 2016
       
       
Honors & Awards
  • Degree of Bachelor of Science, SUMMA CUM LAUDE from Peking University
  • Excellent Graduate of Beijing Province
  • Excellent Graduate of Peking University
  • Meritorious Winner of Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) 2015
  • Pacemaker to Outstanding Students in 2015, which was awarded to the Top 3 students in comprehensive rank of 52 students in class
  • National scholarship of 2014, which was awarded to Top 3 students out of approximately 150 students in grade
  • Google Excellent Student Scholarship of 2015, which was awarded to me only in Peking University
  • Fuqing Yang & Yangyuan Wang Academician scholarship of Peking University of 2013 and 2015
  • Third Prize of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) of 2013, 2014 and 2015
  • First Prize of the National Mathematics Competition of High School Students in Tianjin Province
  • Outstanding student in “Algorithmic Game Theory” course taught by Professor Christos Papadimitriou from UC Berkeley
  • Second Prize of the 5th Computer - Computer Game Competition (Four Color Map Game) in Peking University in 2013
  • Peking University Excellent Athlete (Level Three) in aerobics in 2013