Scholar
Junyi Jessy Li
Google Scholar ID: tJGm3-YAAAAJ
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,215
H-index
29
i10-index
67
Publications
20
Co-authors
60
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several papers, including QUDSim, COLM’25; QSalience, EMNLP’24; QUDeval, EMNLP’23; QUD parsing, ACL Findings’23; EvalAgent, COLM’25; InfoLossQA, ACL’24; FactPICO, ACL’24; ElabQUD, EMNLP’23; Strategic Discourse; SPRI, ICML’25; AstroVisBench, NeurIPS’25; exLong, ICSE’25, etc. Served as Program Chair for EMNLP 2026, NAACL Secretary (2024-present), Senior Area Chair for ACL 2025, NAACL 2025, IJCNLP-AACL 2025, etc.
Research Experience
- AI Lead of the Explorable Universe Research Group in the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI). Also an affiliated faculty member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.
Education
- Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, advised by Ani Nenkova.
Background
- Associate Professor, working on computational linguistics and natural language processing. Belongs to the Linguistics Department and (by courtesy) the Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Works with the Computational Linguistics Group at UT Linguistics and the UT NLP Group.
Miscellany
- Always looking for motivated students to join her group. Students can apply to either the Linguistics PhD program (with computational linguistics as the subfield) or the Computer Science PhD program, depending on their interests.
