Biographical Sketch

Jackie Chi Kit Cheung is an associate professor at McGill University's School of Computer Science, where he co-directs the Reasoning and Learning Lab. He is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and an Associate Scientific Co-Director at the Mila Quebec AI Institute. His research focuses on topics in natural language generation such as automatic summarization, and on integrating diverse knowledge sources into NLP systems for pragmatic and common-sense reasoning. He also works on applications of NLP to domains such as education, health, and language revitalization. He is motivated in particular by how the structure of the world can be reflected in the structure of language processing systems. He is a consulting researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal.

He has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications, including many at the top venues in NLP. He won a best paper award at ACL 2018. He has served as a Senior Area Chair and a Workshop Chair for top NLP conferences, and was a Program Chair of Canadian AI 2018. Alumni from his research group have taken faculty positions in academia and research positions in top industry labs.

Academic History

2021–current	Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University
2015–2021	Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University
2010–2014	Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto	Advisor: Gerald Penn
2008–2010	M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto	Advisor: Gerald Penn
2004–2008	B.Sc. (Honours) in Computer Science, minors in Linguistics and German at the University of British Columbia	Advisor: Giuseppe Carenini
Spring 2012	Internship in the NLP group, Microsoft Research	Mentors: Lucy Vanderwende and Hoifung Poon
Summer 2011	Internship in the Speech Group, Microsoft Research	Mentor: Xiao Li