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Li Zhang
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Assistant Professor, Drexel University
natural language processing
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Language Model Planners do not Scale, but do Formalizers?
2026
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Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers, such as 'Language Model as Planner and Formalizer under Constraints'
- Served as a reviewer and chair for many NLP conferences and workshops
- Area Chair for ARR Feb 2025/ACL 2025, ARR Dec 2024, etc.
- Program Chair for MASC-SLL 2023, MASC-SLL 2021, etc.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Dec 2024 to Present
- Research Intern at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, April 2023 to Dec 2023
- Research Intern at IBM Research, May 2021 to Aug 2021, April 2019 to June 2019
Education
- PhD: University of Pennsylvania, Aug 2019 to Aug 2024, mentored by Prof. Chris Callison-Burch
- BS: University of Michigan, Aug 2015 to Dec 2018, mentored by Prof. Rada Mihalcea and Prof. Dragomir Radev
Background
- Assistant professor focusing on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
- Interested in planning and reasoning using Large Language Models
- Earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, mentored by Prof. Chris Callison-Burch, with a thesis committee chaired by Prof. Dan Roth
- Earned a BS from the University of Michigan, mentored by Prof. Rada Mihalcea and Prof. Dragomir Radev
Miscellany
- Offers remote or in-person research mentorship and collaboration for selected junior students looking to apply for a PhD program
- Teaching: CS T780-001: Applied NLP (Spring 2025, Spring 2026 at Drexel), CS 614: Applied AI (Spring 2026 at Drexel)
Co-authors
50 total
Chris Callison-Burch
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Qing Lyu
Research Scientist, Databricks Mosaic Research
Niket Tandon
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Bangalore
Marianna Apidianaki
University of Pennsylvania
Peter Clark
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
Hainiu Xu (许海牛)
PhD Student, King's College London
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Adam Stein
UPenn
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