I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have been a member of the BLENDER Lab since 2017, supervised by Prof. Heng Ji.

I graduated a summa cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a dual B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.

My research interest lies in Automated Literature Understanding and Scientific Discovery. Here is my up-to-date CV.

Recent News

• Mar 13, 2024: Name Tagging Under Domain Shift via Metric Learning for Life Sciences was accpeted by NAACL-HLT 2024.

• Jan 18, 2024: Chem-FINESE: Validating Fine-Grained Few-shot Entity Extraction through Text Reconstruction was accepted by EACL 2024 Findings.

• Nov 18, 2023: We will present an tutorial on Towards a Human-Computer Collaborative Scientific Paper Lifecycle at LREC-COLING 2024 in Italy!

• Oct 2, 2023: We will present an tutorial at EACL2024 in Malta and organize the first “Language + Molecules” workshop at ACL2024 in Bangkok!

• May 2, 2023: Multimedia Generative Script Learning for Task Planning was accepted by ACL 2023 Findings.

• Nov 10, 2021: We presented a tutorial on Knowledge-enriched Natural Language Generation at EMNLP 2021. There were more than 95 online and 25 in-person participants.

• June 9, 2021 COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation won the Best Demo Award at NAACL-HLT 2021 System Demonstrations! [News Report]

• May 14, 2021: Stage-wise Fine-tuning for Graph-to-Text Generation was accepted by ACL-IJCNLP 2021 SRW. [Twitter]

• March 17, 2021: COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation was accepted by NAACL-HLT 2021 System Demonstrations. [Twitter]

• Oct 11, 2020: ReviewRobot: Explainable Paper Review Generation based on Knowledge Synthesis was accepted by INLG 2020.

• May 14, 2019: PaperRobot: Incremental Draft Generation of Scientific Ideas was accepted by ACL 2019. [News Report] [Twitter]

• Sept 7, 2018: Describing a Knowledge Base was accepted by INLG 2018 as Oral Presentation.

• Apr 20, 2018: Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism was accepted by ACL 2018.

• Nov, 2017: A Two-Layer Dialogue Framework For Authoring Social Bots was accepted by 1st Proceedings of Alexa Prize.

• Nov 30, 2016: our Wise Macaw team is Finalist in $2.5 Million Amazon Alexa Prize. [News Report]