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  "content": "---\ntitle: \"Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu\"\ndescription: \"Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language\n  understanding, completed through lockdown.\"\ntags:\n  - research\n  - ai\n---\n\nA big congratulations to my PhD student Chenchen for successfully completing his\nPhD; his thesis title was _Weakly Supervised Vision and Language Representation\nLearning in Sign Language Understanding_. It's freely available online from the\n[ANU Library](https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/174662f9-0aba-4ed2-a340-eea1574969b4).\n\nNot only did he do excellent work, but (look at the date) he did a lot of it\nalone, under lockdown. Really tough circumstances and a credit to you Chenchen\nfor coming out the other side.\n",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-13T23:14:45.693Z",
  "description": "Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language understanding, completed through lockdown.",
  "path": "/blog/2023/06/01/congrats-dr-chenchen-xu",
  "publishedAt": "2023-06-01T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
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  "textContent": "Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language understanding, completed through lockdown.",
  "title": "Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu"
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