About me
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. Previously, I graduated a summa cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a dual B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
I am among the first researchers to develop a virtual scientific research assistant (i.e., PaperRobot [ACL 2019]) for literature-based discovery by extracting and synthesizing insights from papers. My research interest lies in Automated Literature Understanding and Scientific Discovery. My long-term vision is to develop AI for Scientists (AI4Scientist) tools to effectively accelerate every stage of the research process for scientists. This encompasses three threads (but are not limited to):
- Knowledge Discovery
- Knowledge Reasoning
- Knowledge Dissemination
I’m happy to collaborate and answer questions about my research. I especially encourage students from underrepresented groups to reach out.
I am on the academic job market this fall! Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in my research or have relevant opportunities.
Recent News
Sep 20, 2024: We will organize the second AI4Research: Towards a Knowledge-grounded Scientific Research Lifecycle at AAAI 2025 in Philadelphia! Please submit your research on OpenReview by Nov 22!
Aug 20, 2024: Invited talk “SciMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty” at Elsevier.
Aug 15, 2024: Gene-Metabolite Association Prediction with Interactive Knowledge Transfer Enhanced Graph for Metabolite Production was accpeted by BIBM 2024.
Apr 26, 2024: Invited talk “AIScientist: Toward Automated Literature Understanding and Scientific Discovery” at PSU.
May 15, 2024: SciMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty was accpeted by ACL 2024. [AI News (5th June 2023)] [AI Breakdown] [MMLI Newsletter]
Mar 13, 2024: Named Entity Recognition Under Domain Shift via Metric Learning for Life Sciences was accpeted by NAACL-HLT 2024.
Mar 8, 2024: Invited talk “SciMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty” at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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 a tutorial on Towards a Human-Computer Collaborative Scientific Paper Lifecycle at LREC-COLING 2024 in Italy!
Oct 2, 2023: We will present a 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]