- Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Xinjiang University (XJU), 12/2025-Present
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Project: Multi-Modal Large Language Model Translation for Low-Resource Languages
- Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), School of Computer Science, Xinjiang University (XJU), 04/2025-12/2025
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Project: Towards Multimodal Large Language Model Translation for Low-Resource Languages along the Belt and Road Initiative
- Research Assistant (RA), Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 04/2023-04/2025
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Project: Exploring Machine Translation Technologies Using Large Language Models for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Applications.
- NLP Senior Algorithm Engineer, Language Technology Lab, ALIBABA DAMO ACADEMY, 07/2021-03/2023
- Base: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Project: Multilingual Processing for International E-commerce Platforms DARAZ, LAZADA and AliExpress
- Contribution: owner of the DARAZ algorithm, both the FAQ and the Agent Intent Classification models. I contributed to the multilingual intelligent customer service system for AliExpress. I also proposed an improved code-mixing strategy and achieved better results in some languages of LAZADA with an average score of 4 points. I also presented some approaches for the pre-training part and achieved remarkably better results for the whole DARAZ system with 13 points (offline tests) and 9 points (online tests).
- Research Intern (RI), Language Technology Lab, ALIBABA DAMO ACADEMY, 07/2020-10/2020
- Base: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Project: Urdu-Roman Transliteration for Smart Customer Service System of International E-commerce Platform
- Contribution: I presented a hybrid model that can solve the main challenges (many-to-one mapping and inconsistent mapping) in this task. Moreover, the proposed approach is embedded in the dialog system of the international e-commerce platform DARAZ.
- CTO, Information Services Department, Beijing Silk Road Heli Investment Management Group Co., Ltd, 07/2019-12/2019
- Base: Beijing, China
- Project: Multilingual E-commerce Platform
- Contribution: I instructed our team to develop a multilingual e-commerce platform with the front-end and back-end written by us instead of using other frameworks. The system is highly flexible and extensible, and can be easily adapted into an online teaching or training system.
- Technical Advisor, MT Team, NewTranx Technology, 12/2018-05/2019
- Base: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Project: NMT for Morphologically Rich Languages (Arabic-Chinese)
- Contribution: I gave some technical advice on training the NMT model for morphologically rich languages (Arabic, Turkish, and Urdu) with Chinese. We used a well-known NMT architecture (Transformer) with a commonly used neural network toolkit (TensorFlow). I also provided some processing tools for Arabic, Turkish and Urdu.
- Technical Advisor, MT Team, SinoVoice, 11/2017-11/2018
- Base: Beijing, China
- Project: NMT for Low-Resource Languages (Uyghur-Chinese)
- Contribution: I advised the team of MT to implement the bidirectional Uyghur-Chinese NMT system efficiently and quickly. I also provided both pre-processing and post-processing code for Uyghur.
- Social Practice Intern, Information Team, Xinjiang Tourism Investment Management Co. Ltd, 06/2016-08/2016
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Project: THU College Summer Social Practice Activities
- Contribution: In this project, I submitted a technical report for the provision of multilingual services. I also designed the core architecture for spoken translation, combining ASR, TTS, and NMT for the Smart Tourism project.
- NLP Researcher (Apprenticeship), THUNLP Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, 09/2015 - 06/2021
- Base: Beijing, China
- Mentor: Prof. MaoSong Sun, Prof. Yang Liu
- Project: Cross-lingual Information Retrieval system and Low-Resource Languages NMT system
- Contribution: I have developed a cross-lingual information retrieval system between minority languages (Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian) and Chinese. I have also developed an NMT online demo for LRLs (demo).
- Visited Scholar, Machine Intelligence and Translation Lab, HIT, 09/2014-10/2014
- Base: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- Mentor: Dr. Conghui Zhu
- Project: Uyghur-Chinese Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)
- Task: Learn related techniques about SMT, such as learning the open-source system MOSES, learning how to train, how to tune the model, how to optimize, and how to deploy the trained model on the web server. In the meantime, I learned the CRF model from Dr. Conghui Zhu. Besides, I also improved my Linux knowledge in their lab.
- Software Engineer, Information Team, Xinjiang Tiznap Information Technology Co. Ltd, 04/2013-11/2013
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Project: Uyghur Search Engine
- Contribution: I participated in the backend development of the Uyghur Information Retrieval System and gained some experience with the IR system.
- NLP Senior Engineer (Apprenticeship), Xinjiang Multi-Lingual Information Technology Key Laboratory, 09/2012-06/2015
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Mentor: Prof. Wushouer Silamu
- Project: Uyghur ASR, TTS, Spoken Translation systems
- Contribution: I completed the Uyghur multi-script TTS model in collaboration with my teammates. In the meantime, we also proposed the Uyghur speech-driven ASR model. In the last year of my master’s degree, we developed a bidirectional system for Uyghur-Chinese spoken translation by combining our individually trained models (Uyghur ASR, TTS, and MT).
- Social Practice Intern, Information Team, Government office, 07/2010-08/2010
- Base: Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
- Project: XJU College Summer Social Practice Activities
- Contribution: In this project, we taught local farmers commonly used techniques and current preferential policies for farmers.
- Software Engineer (Apprenticeship), Xinjiang Multi-Lingual Information Technology Key Laboratory, 11/2009-06/2012
- Base: Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
- Mentor: Prof. Wushouer Silamu
- Project: Operating System (Localization), Software Development
- Contribution: I took part in the Windows 7 operating system localization task. Besides, I developed desktop applications (Education Systems) and Network applications (Government and Company multilingual Websites). Meanwhile, in the last year of my undergraduate studies, I designed Android APPs for learning Chinese.
