🎉 We are organizing a workshop "AI4Research" at IJCAI'24 (Jeju Island, South Korea; Aug. 5, 2024). Your submissions & participation are highly welcome: submission link 👏🎉

Hi, I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, and an Associate in the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State, where I lead the AI4Research lab. 

Recent Research:

• AI for Research

  • AI for Healthcare [Nature Digital Medicine, 2021], AI for GeoScience, AI for Math [EACL'24], AI for Scientific Document Analysis, AI for Scientific Writing

• Human-centered AI

  • Trustworthy AI: bias [Arxiv'24], explainability ([arXiv 2020], [arXiv'20]), robustness [ACL'23])

  • AI equity

• Large Language Models (LLMs) & NLP & Computer Vision

  • LLM-driven instruction following: continual learning [ACL2022], robustness [ACL2023], zero-shot instruction following [EACL'24], survey [Arxiv'23-b], Muffin dataset [ICLR'24]

  • Evaluation of text generation: machine translation evaluation [ICLR'24]

  • Evaluation of LLMs: bias [Arxiv'24], reasoning

  • Parameter-efficient tuning: [EMNLP'23]

• Machine Learning

  • Zero-shot & Few-shot Learning: [EMNLP'20], [NAACL'21], [CoNLL'22]

  • Incremental Learning: [EMNLP2020], [NAACL2021], [ACL2022]

  • Improving training: Mixup-Transformer [COLING'20], BatchMixup [ACL'21], Learning to Select from Multiple Options [AAAI'23]

Professional Activities:

• Co-Chair: Wise-Supervision 2022 (workshop co-located with AKBC2022); AI4Research 2024 (workshop co-located with IJCAI'24)

• Senior Area Chairs: NAACL'2021, ACL Rolling Review (ARR), IJCNLP-AACL'23, LREC-COLING'24, EACL'24, EMNLP'24

• Area Chairs: NAACL'2019, ACL'2019, ACL'2021, NLPCC'21&23, CCL'23, ACL'2023, EMNLP'23

Work&Education Experience:

• Assistant professor. Temple University. Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022

• Senior Research Scientist. Salesforce Research, Palo Alto. Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2021.

• Postdoc. Supervisor: Prof. Dan Roth. University of Pennsylvania. Oct 2017 - July 2019.

• Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Hinrich Schütze. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. 2017

• Intern, IBM Watson, Yorktown Heights, NY USA.   Feb. 27 -- May 30, 2016.

• MSc. Peking University, China, 2013.

• BSc. Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2010.  

Invited Talks:

• "Unveiling Translation Excellence: Shifting Focus from Scores to Comparative Evaluation". CISS'24. March 13, 2024

• "Generalizable Information Extraction". AWS AI Labs. March 14, 2023

• "Learning from Task Instructions -- A New Learning Paradigm for NLP". Penn State University. July 28, 2022

• "Representation Learning in Textual Entailment'', National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, USA, Dec. 10, 2018

• "Neural Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs'', University of Oxford & Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. March 2017

Honors and Awards:

• Awarded "2022 Global Top Chinese Young Scholars in Artificial Intelligence"

• Paper awarded "Area Chair Favorites" in COLING'2018

• Google Grant, *SEM@NAACL'2018

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (国家优秀自费留学生奖学金), 2016

• Baidu Ph.D. Fellowship, 2014 & 2015

• Google Travel Grant for ACL2014

• Best Paper Award in WISE'2013

• National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2012 

• Guanghua Scholarship, Peking University, 2012

• Pacesetter of Outstanding Students, Peking University, 2012