Hello! ☃️
I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), situated on the University of Chicago campus.
I obtained my Ph.D. from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University, affiliated with the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at Harvard/Cornell. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rush, who is currently at Cornell University. I have also worked with Professor Minlan Yu at Harvard on ML applications in networks and cybersecurity.
I obtained an M.A. degree in Statistics from Harvard University. Prior to Harvard, I received my B.S. degree in EE from Tsinghua University.
My primary research interests lie in the area of natural language processing and machine learning. I use deep learning and structured prediction methods for understanding language semantics in order to build intelligent systems that are more accurate, interpretable, efficient, and accessible. Practically, this involves a wide-range of generation problems, such as text, semantic representations, code and programs, reasoning and explanations, etc. with different resources. I am also broadly interested in learning and generation of structured data (such as graphs) related to/beyond language, and would love to collaborate on data-driven interdisciplinary applications.
I am teaching the NLP course at TTIC/UChicago in fall 2023 with Freda Shi: