Lei Sha

Professor, Beihang University
I'm always looking for highly motivated students to work with me on broad NLP research. Please feel free to reach out and apply!

I am now a professor in the Artificial Intelligence Institute of Beihang University.

I'm also the head of OxTium AI Research, where we work on cutting-edge research and engineering projects in LLM-for-LifeScience. If you are interested in the positions of Engineer or Researcher (Internship & Full-time Opportunities), please don't hesitate to drop me an email.

Previously, I was a research associate in University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Lukasiewicz. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2018. During my Ph.D. period, I was co-advised by Prof. Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang and Sujian Li.

  • Email: shalei[AT]buaa.edu.cn
Group

The Language Computing and Sequential Data Analysis Group (LecSa Group)

Current Students

Hao Wang

LLM safety, LLM control

Beihang IAI

PhD student (2023-)

Hao Li

LLM safety

Beihang IAI

Master (2024-)

Sihan Fan

LLM related research

Beihang Shen Yuan Honors College

Master (2024-)

Zengqi Xiu

LLM safety

Beihang Shen Yuan Honors College (Cosupervised with Prof. Shaoting Tang), ZGC Lab

PhD student (2024-)

Jian Liu

LLM hallucination mitigation

Beihang IAI

PhD student (2024-)

Xiuping Liang

Image Generation

Beihang IAI, Co-supervised with Prof. Yier Jin

PhD student (2024-)

Yunhao Mei

LLM safety

Beihang IAI

PhD student (2024-)

Guanhua Chen

LLM Hallucination

Beihang IAI

PhD student (2025-)

Pengsheng Chen

LLM Math reasoning

Beihang ECPKN

Master (2025-)

Wenxin Wu

LLM Hallucination

Beihang IAI

Master (2025-)

Yanting Wang

LLM Hallucination

Beihang IAI

PhD student (2025-)

Research Internship

Qianpu Liu

LLM for cfRNA, LLM for theorem proving

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: May 2023 -

Wenhan Yu

LLM for law

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: Mar 2024 -

Chen Wang

LLM for Science

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: Sep 2024 -

Dayou Zhou

LLM for 3D generation

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: Nov 2024 -

Tsan Ouyang

LLM related research

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: Feb 2025 -

Dongze Wu

LLM related research

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: Mar 2025 -

Wendi Feng

LLM related research

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: May 2025 -

Jie Li

LLM related research

USTB (Bachelor)

Duration: May 2025 -

Yueran Pei

LLM related research

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: May 2025 -

Wenjing Zhi

LLM related research

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: May 2025 -

Xingzhou Zhang

LLM related research

Beihang University (Bachelor)

Duration: May 2025 -

Visiting Scholar

Rui Li

LLM research

Peking University

Duration: Sep 2023 -

Jingyuan Ma

LLM research

Peking University

Duration: Sep 2023 -

Han Yang

LLM research

Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

Duration: Mar 2025 -

Chun Kang

LLM research

Beihang University

Duration: Mar 2025 -

Zhuang Liu

LLM research

Beihang University

Duration: Apr 2025 -

Fanhu Zeng

LLM research

Institute of Automation, CAS

Duration: Jun 2025 -

Alumni

Feng Qian

SRL research

Peking University (Bachelor) --> Harvard University (Master)

Duration: Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

Chengyue Gong

ML research

Peking University (Bachelor) --> University of Texas at Austin (PhD)

Duration: Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

Publications
(#) for corresponding author
  1. How Far are LLMs from Being Our Digital Twins? A Benchmark for Persona-Based Behavior Chain Simulation
    Rui Li, Heming Xia, Xinfeng Yuan, Qingxiu Dong, Lei Sha, Wenjie Li, Zhifang Sui
    In Findings of ACL 2025 Conference, 2025. (ACL 2025 Findings).
    [PDF]
  2. Towards Harmonized Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models
    Rui Li, Jing Long, Muge Qi, Heming Xia, Lei Sha, Peiyi Wang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of ACL 2025 Conference, 2025. (ACL 2025).
    [PDF]
  3. Be a Multitude to Itself: A Prompt Evolution Framework for Red Teaming
    Rui Li, Peiyi Wang, Jingyuan Ma, Di Zhang, Lei Sha, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2024 Conference, 2024. (EMNLP 2024).
    [PDF]
  4. ASETF: A Novel Method for Jailbreak Attack on LLMs through Translate Suffix Embeddings
    Hao Wang, Hao Li, Minlie Huang, Lei Sha(#)
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2024 Conference, 2024. (EMNLP 2024).
    [PDF][Arxiv]
  5. ATM: Adversarial Tuning Multi-agent System Makes a Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generator
    Junda Zhu, Lingyong Yan, Haibo Shi, Dawei Yin, Lei Sha(#)
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2024 Conference, 2024. (EMNLP 2024).
    [PDF][Arxiv]
  6. Harnessing the Plug-and-Play Controller by Prompting
    Hao Wang, Lei Sha(#)
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2023 WorkShop, 2023. (EMNLP-GEM 2023).
    [PDF][Arxiv]
  7. Correcting Flaws in Common Disentanglement Metrics
    Louis Mahon, Lei Sha, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Transactions of Machine Learning Research, 2024. (TMLR 2024).
    [PDF][Arxiv]
  8. Text Attribute Control via Closed-Loop Disentanglement
    Lei Sha, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (TACL). [IF=17.59]
    [PDF]
  9. Rationalizing Predictions by Adversarial Information Calibration
    Lei Sha, Oana-Maria Camburu, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Artificial Intelligence. (AI). [IF=14.05]
    [PDF]
  10. Controlling Text Edition by Changing Answers of Specific Questions
    Lei Sha, Patrick Hohenecker, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Finding of ACL 2021 Conference, 2021. (ACL 2021 (Finding)).
    [PDF][Arxiv][Data & Code]
  11. Learning from the Best: Rationalizing Predictions by Adversarial Information Calibration
    Lei Sha, Oana-Maria Camburu, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2021 Conference, 2021. (AAAI 2021).
    [PDF][Arxiv][Code][BeerAdvocate]
  12. Multi-type Disentanglement without Adversarial Training
    Lei Sha, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2021 Conference, 2021. (AAAI 2021).
    [PDF][Arxiv][Code]
  13. Gradient-guided Unsupervised Lexically Constrained Text Generation
    Lei Sha
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020 Conference, 2020. (EMNLP 2020).
    [PDF]
  14. Estimating Minimum Operation Steps via Memory-based Recurrent Calculation Network
    Lei Sha, Chen Shi, Qi Chen, Lintao Zhang, Houfeng Wang
    In 2020 international joint conference on neural networks. (IJCNN 2020).
    [PDF][Code]
  15. Order-Planning Neural Text Generation from Structured Data
    Lei Sha, Lili Mou, Tianyu Liu, Pascal Poupart, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [PDF][Arxiv]
  16. A Multi-View Fusion Neural Network for Answer Selection
    Lei Sha, Xiaodong Zhang, Feng Qian, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [PDF]
  17. Jointly Extracting Event Triggers and Arguments by Dependency-Bridge RNN and Tensor-Based Argument Interaction
    Lei Sha, Feng Qian, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [AAAIPDF] [PDF]
  18. Will Repeated Reading Benefit Natural Language Understanding?
    Lei Sha, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of NLPCC 2017 Conference, 2017. (NLPCC 2017).
    [PDF]
  19. Reading and Thinking: Re-read LSTM Unit for Textual Entailment Recognition
    Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Sujian Li
    In Proceedings of Coling 2016 Conference, 2016. (Coling 2016).
    [PDF]
  20. Capturing Argument Relationship for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
    Lei Sha, Tingsong Jiang, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2016 Conference, 2016. (EMNLP 2016).
    [PDF]
  21. RBPB: Regularization-Based Pattern Balancing Method for Event Extraction
    Lei Sha, Jing Liu, Chin-Yew Lin, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of ACL 2016 Conference, 2016. (ACL 2016).
    [PDF]
  22. Joint Learning Templates and Slots for Event Schema Induction
    Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui.
    In Proceedings of NAACL 2016 Conference, 2016. (NAACL 2016).
    [arxiv(including supplement material)][PDF]
  23. Recognizing Textual Entailment Using Probabilistic Inference
    Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Tingsong Jiang, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui.
    In Proceedings of the EMNLP 2015 Conference, 2015. (EMNLP 2015).
    [PDF]
  24. RecInDial: A Unified Framework for Conversational Recommendation with Pretrained Language Models.
    Lingzhi Wang, Huang Hu, Lei Sha, Can Xu, Daxin Jiang, Kam-Fai Wong
    In Proceedings of AACL 2022 Conference, 2022. (AACL 2022).
    [PDF]
  25. Small Changes Make Big Differences: Improving Multi-turn Response Selection in Dialogue Systems via Fine-Grained Contrastive Learning.
    Yuntao Li, Can Xu, Huang Hu, Lei Sha, Yan Zhang, Daxin Jiang
    In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2022 Conference, 2022. ( INTERSPEECH 2022).
    [PDF]
  26. Associative Memory via Predictive Coding
    Tommaso Salvatori, Yuhang Song, Yujian Hong, Simon Frieder, Lei Sha, Zhenghua Xu, Rafal Bogacz, Thomas Lukasiewicz
    In Proceedings of NeurIPS 2021 Conference, 2021. (NeurIPS 2021).
    [PDF] [Arxiv]
  27. Auto-Dialabel: Labeling Dialogue Data with Unsupervised Learning
    Chen Shi, Qi Chen, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang, Lintao Zhang
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2018 Conference, 2018. (EMNLP 2018).
    [PDF]
  28. Table-to-text Generation by Structure-aware Seq2seq learning
    Tianyu Liu, Kexiang Wang, Lei Sha, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2018 Conference, 2018. (AAAI 2018).
    [PDF]
  29. Topic Medical Concept Embedding: Multi-Sense Representation Learning For Medical Concept
    Feng Qian, Chengyue Gong, Luchen Liu, Lei Sha, Ming Zhang
    In Proceedings of BIBM 2017 conference, 2017. (BIBM 2017).
  30. Syntax Aware LSTM Model for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
    Feng Qian, Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Lu-chen Liu, Ming Zhang
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2017 Workshop, 2017. (EMNLP 2017 (workshop)). [PDF]
  31. A Progressive Learning Approach to Chinese SRL Using Heterogeneous Data
    Qiaolin Xia, Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of ACL 2017 Conference, 2017. (ACL 2017). [PDF]
  32. Attentive Interactive Neural Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering
    Xiaodong Zhang, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Houfeng Wang
    In Proceedings of AAAI 2017 Conference, 2017. (AAAI 2017). [PDF]
  33. Encoding Temporal Information for Time-Aware Link Prediction
    Tingsong Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Tao Ge, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui.
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2016 Conference, 2016. (EMNLP 2016). [PDF]
  34. Towards Time-Aware Knowledge Graph Completion
    Tingsong Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Tao Ge, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of Coling 2016 Conference, 2016. (Coling 2016). [PDF]
  35. Multi-label Text Categorization with Joint Learning Predictions-as-Features Method
    Li Li, Houfeng Wang, Lei Sha, Xu Sun, Baobao Chang, Shi Zhao.
    In Proceedings of EMNLP 2015 Conference, 2015. (EMNLP 2015). [PDF]
  36. Event Schema Induction Based on Relational Co-occurrence over Multiple Documents
    Tingsong Jiang, Lei Sha, Zhifang Sui
    In Proceedings of Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, 2014. (NLPCC 2014).