Scholar
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Google Scholar ID: XxRXvX0AAAAJ
Associate Professor, UCLA
Citations & Impact
Citations
13,838
H-index
55
i10-index
149
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications: Multiple papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025, EMNLP 2025, ICCV 2025, ACL 2025, ICML 2025, CVPR 2025, ICLR 2025, etc.
- - Awards: Three Outstanding Paper Awards (top 0.4%) at EMNLP 2024
- - Community Roles: Elected as a board member for NAACL, Program Chair for EMNLP 2025
Research Experience
- - Current Position: Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles, and an Amazon Scholar at the Amazon AGI org
- - Research Focus: Controllable (creative) language generation, multi-modal foundation models, automatic evaluation of foundation models, low-resource, multilingual natural language understanding
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing
- - Postdoc Experience: Research Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of University of Southern California, and a Research Lead at the Information Sciences Institute
Background
- - Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
- - Professional Field: Computer Science
- - Brief Introduction: Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles, and an Amazon Scholar at the Amazon AGI org. Directs PLUSLAB (Peng's Language Understanding and Synthesis Lab) at UCLA, aiming to develop robust NLP techniques to lower communication barriers and make AI true companions for humans.
Miscellany
- - Personal Interests: Not provided
