One paper accepted at EMNLP 2025 Findings; one long paper accepted by ACL 2025 main track; presented two main conference papers, one LBW paper, and one workshop paper at CHI 2025; Red Note paper won Best Paper Honorable Mention; PSU Crowd-AI Lab PhD #3, Dr. Ting-Yao (Edward) Hsu, successfully defended his dissertation; PSU Crowd-AI Lab PhD #1, Dr. Hua Shen, started a new faculty position at NYU Shanghai; received Best Paper Award at the AAAI 2025 AI4Research workshop; received a research grant from Sloan Foundation to foster scientific figure caption writing.
Research Experience
Taking a sabbatical leave from Penn State to visit Cornell Information Science from June 2025 to summer 2026; gave invited talks at Georgetown University, John Hopkins University, and Bloomberg; led the organization of MASC-SLL 2025.
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Background: Associate Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), Pennsylvania State University, and Visiting Professor at Cornell Information Science. Focused on developing interactive systems to help users achieve their creative and social goals in day-to-day activities.
Miscellany
Personal interests: Avoids morning meetings (ET time), but welcomes visitors in Ithaca.