- Awards: 2025 Google Research Scholar Award, ACL 2023 Area Chair Award, 2016 Thesis Honorable Mention Award by Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Fourth Place in KDD Cup 2015
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2024-present
- Postdoc: Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023-2024, Collaborator: Heng Ji
Education
- Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles, Computer Science, 2018-2023, Advisors: Kai-Wei Chang and Nanyun Peng
- M.S.: National Taiwan University, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2014-2016
- B.S.: National Taiwan University, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2010-2014
Background
- Research Interests: Natural language processing, developing trustworthy and generalizable language AI systems
- Professional Field: Robustness of LLMs and VLMs, multimodal reasoning, multilingual understanding
- Introduction: Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, leading the FLAIR Lab. His research directions include robustness of LLMs and VLMs, multimodal reasoning, and multilingual understanding.