Scholar
Kai-Wei Chang
Google Scholar ID: fqDBtzYAAAAJ
Associate Professor, UCLA
Citations & Impact
Citations
38,376
H-index
72
i10-index
246
Publications
20
Co-authors
61
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Received several awards including Sloan Research Fellowship (2021), Okawa Research Grant Award (2018), EMNLP Best Long Paper Award (2017), and KDD Best Paper Award (2010)
- - Several papers are top-10 cited at AI conferences
- - Published numerous important papers in the fields of NLP and machine learning
Research Experience
- - Serves as an Associate Professor at UCLA
- - Works as an Amazon Scholar at Alexa AI
- - Organizes Trustworthy NLP workshops
- - Leads multiple research projects involving video-language alignment, plug-and-play compositional reasoning, object recognition, etc.
Background
- - Research interests include: trustworthy natural language processing, multimodal foundation models, and reasoning in NLP
- - Associate Professor at UCLA and an Amazon Scholar at Alexa AI
- - Published pioneering works on aligning NLP models with human values, focusing on fairness in NLU and generative AI
- - Developed VisualBERT, one of the first vision-language models
- - Studied methods for LLMs to adhere to specified constraints and their commonsense, mathematical, and logical reasoning capabilities
Miscellany
- - Looking for prospective students and postdocs to join the team
- - Research supported by NSF, IARPA, ONR, NIH, DARPA, and industrial partners such as Taboola, Amazon, Facebook, CISCO, OptumLabs, and Google
