Personal

• My name is pronounced as "dan-/'chE/" (I know "qi" is not easy to pronounce). My friends like to call me "CDQ" though.
• I was born and grew up in Changsha, China. In the past, I have also "lived" in Beijing, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, NYC, Boston and Seattle.
• Here are two papers that I wrote in high school (unpublished; in Chinese): [1] and [2] and they are known as "plug-like dynamic programming" and "CDQ's divide-and-conquer" today.
• Whenever I am not thinking about research, I enjoy most outdoor activities (running, hiking, biking... esp. long-distance wise) and also spend a lot of time on reading, watching movies and exploring nice restaurants and coffee shops.
• Portraits: [1], [2], [3] (credit: Lu Wang).

Advice & useful stuff

• NLP/ML conference deadlines
• Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
• How to Be a Successful PhD Student (in Computer Science (in NLP/ML)) by Mark Dredze and Hanna M. Wallach
• A Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy
• Fei-Fei Li's advice on Good Research and Good Papers
• Kevin Gimpel's PhD advice