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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2023)
Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech (2024)
Best Paper Award, AI4Search Workshop at AAAI'2025
Principal investigator on multiple grants, including an NSF award on Conversational AI for Combating Cybergrooming and a DARPA FoundSci grant on foundation models for novel material design
Served in leadership roles at major conferences: Publication Committee Co-Chair for ACL'2023, Senior Area Chair for EMNLP'2024, etc.
Numerous papers accepted at top-tier venues including EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, NAACL, ICML, TMLR, EACL, IJCAI, AAAI, and WWW
Background
Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UC Davis
Research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
Aims to develop efficient models and benchmarks to advance machine intelligence toward human-level capabilities
Interested in continuously acquiring precise knowledge from the open world via large-scale weak supervision
Recent research interests include the fundamentals, understanding, enhancement, and forward-looking aspects of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
Actively seeking highly motivated students for NLP and multimodal research collaborations