Best Paper Award at TrustNLP 2021; Best Paper Runner-Up at The Web Conference (WWW) 2020; Best Thesis at SJTU.
Best Paper Award at CoRL 2024 LangRob Workshop.
Named an AI Rising Star by Baidu Scholar.
Senior Area Chair for ACL 2025; Area Chair for ICLR 2025, ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023/2024.
Organized workshops including FL4NLP@ACL22, CSRR@ACL22, CSKB@AKBC21, TamingLLM@SIGDIAL+INLG'23.
Delivered tutorials at ACL 2022/2023 and WSDM 2023.
Led or contributed to releases of MagpieLM (4B & 8B), ZeroEval, WildVision datasets (WV-Chat, WV-Battle, WV-Bench), WildBench, PairRM-0.4B, and Vision Arena.
Multiple papers accepted at top venues including ACL 2024 and ICLR 2024 (e.g., Agent Lumos, ETO, SafeDecoding, The Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs).
Research Experience
Member of Technical Staff, xAI (2024–present).
Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington (2024–present).
Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (Feb 2023–Nov 2024); collaborated with Prof. Yejin Choi.
Research Intern, Meta FAIR Lab (May–Dec 2021); hosted by Dr. Scott Yih.
Research Intern, Google AI (2019–2020); hosted by Prof. William Cohen and Sandeep Tata.
Also interned at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Microsoft Research Asia.