Jonathan May
Scholar

Jonathan May

Google Scholar ID: tmK5EPEAAAAJ
University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Machine TranslationMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,008
 
H-index
30
 
i10-index
70
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
list available
Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - "Uncovering Intervention Opportunities for Suicide Prevention with Language Model Assistants", J. Ranjit, H. Cho, C. Smerdon, Y. Nam, M. Phung, J. May, J. Blosnich, S. Swayamdipta. GenAI4Health Workshop at NeurIPS, 2025.
  • - "Language Models Can Predict Their Own Behavior", D. Ashok, J. May. Proc. NeurIPS, 2025.
  • - "Teaching Language Models To Gather Information Proactively", T. Huang, S. Chen, M. Chen, J. May, L. Yang, M. Wan, P. Zhou. Findings of EMNLP, 2025.
  • - "Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References?", D. Ashok, A. Chaubey, H. Arai, J. May, J. Thomason. Findings of EMNLP, 2025.
  • - "FoodPuzzle: Toward Developing Large Language Models as Autonomous Flavor Scientists", T. Huang, D. Lee, J. Sweeney, J. Shi, E. Steliotes, M. Lange, J. May, M. Chen. Proc. KDD, 2025.
  • - "R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory", T. Huang, K. Basu, I. Abdelaziz, P. Kapanipathi, J. May, M. Chen. Proc. ACL, 2025.
  • - "A Little Human Data Goes A Long Way", D. Ashok, J. May. Proc. ACL, 2025.
  • - "NewsInterview: a Dataset and a Playground to Evaluate LLMs' Ground Gap via Informational Interviews", A. Spangher, M. Lu, S. Kalyan, H. Cho, T. Huang, W. Shi, J. May. Proc. ACL, 2025.
  • - "Can Vision Language Models Understand Mimed Actions?" H. Cho, S. Lin, T. Srinivasan, M. Saxon, D. Kwon, N. Chavez, J. May. Findings of ACL, 2025.
  • - "The Million Authors Corpus: A Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Wikipedia Dataset for Authorship Verification", A. Israeli, S. Liu, J. May, D. Jurgens. Findings of ACL, 2025.
  • - "Should I Trust You? Detecting Deception in Negotiations using Counterfactual RL", W. Wongkamjan, Y. Wang, F. Gu, D. Peskoff
Research Experience
  • Work Experience: Research Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, USC; Principal Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute; Director of CUTELABNAME; Teaching experience includes teaching CSCI 544: Applied Natural Language Processing (2017-2025) and CSCI 662: Advanced Natural Language Processing (2019-2025).
Background
  • Research Interests: Natural Language Processing; Professional Field: Computer Science; Brief Introduction: Research Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, also serving as Principal Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute and Director of CUTELABNAME.
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: The webpage mentions that he sometimes wishes his webpage could be like Terry Koo's.