Scholar
Lu Wang
Google Scholar ID: uczqEdUAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,823
H-index
32
i10-index
63
Publications
20
Co-authors
141
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awards: Area Chair Award at ACL 2024, Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2023, Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2017, and Best Paper Nomination Award at SIGDIAL 2012. Mainly funded by National Science Foundation (including a CAREER award), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and industry partnerships. Undertaken multiple research projects such as NLP for writing assistance, long document summarization, etc.
Research Experience
- Currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan (since 2023), previously an Assistant Professor (2020-2023). Was at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University until 2020.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, supervised by Professor Claire Cardie.
Background
- Research interests: natural language processing, computational social science, and machine learning. Specifically, aims to build trustworthy language models that produce factual, accurate, and safe content. Work includes summarization, generation, reasoning, argument mining, as well as creating novel applications to understand narratives and media bias and to support education.
Miscellany
- Serves as ACL equity director; Co-founder and officer of ACL Special Interest Group on Summarization (SIGSUMM); Advises external corporations and organizations on NLP and AI applications.
