Ke Shen is a PhD student at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a Graduate Research Assistant with Information Sciences Institute, both are units of USC Viterbi School of Engineering.  She earned her B.S. in computer science (intelligent science) in 2018 from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China, and her M.S. in computer science (robotics) in 2020 from University of Southern California. Ke started her PhD in 2021, advised by Dr. Mayank Kejriwal.

Ke's research interest lies in the intersection between knowledge graph and natural language processing. Her current focus is language model and its application in commonsense reasoning, especially for multiple-choice question answering tasks.  She previously worked on knowledge graph construction, taxonomy induction and etc.