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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
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