Professional Service, Awards, and Media Coverage
Professional Service
Workshop Organizing Committee
- Scaling Environments for Agents (SEA) at NeurIPS 2025, Dec 2025
 - VISTA: Visionary Innovation in Standards and Technology of GenAI at ICDM 2025, Nov 2025
 - AI4Research: Towards a Knowledge-grounded Scientific Research Lifecycle at AAAI 2025, Mar 2025
 - 1st Workshop on Language + Molecules (L+M 2024) at ACL 2024, Aug 2024
 
Session Chair
- ACL (2025-)
 
Area Chair
- ACL Rolling Review (2025-), EMNLP Demo (2024-)
 
Program Committee
- NAACL/ACL/EMNLP Tutorials (2025-), ACL Rolling Review (2021-), ACL (2019-), EMNLP (2019-), NAACL (2019-), EMNLP Industry (2025-), AACL (2020-), INLG (2019-), COLING (2020-), EACL (2023-), LREC (2022-), COLM (2024-), ACL Demo (2021-), EACL Demo (2023-), EMNLP Demo (2023-), COLING Demo (2025-), FLLM (2024-), CCL (2020-), NLPCC (2021-)
 - ICML (2020-), NeurIPS (2021-), ICLR (2021-), AISTATS (2025-), AAAI (2020-), IJCAI (2021-), ECAI (2025-)
 
Journal Reviewer
- Nature Communications Chemistry (2024-), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2025-), Bioinformatics (2024-), Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2025-), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2023-), Neural Processing Letters 2022, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2020-), Neurocomputing 2019
 
Workshop Program Committee Member
- RepL4NLP (2024-), WiNLP (2024-), AI4Research@IJCAI 2024, KnowledgeLM @ACL 2024, KnowledgeNLP (2023-)
 
Community Services
- Create student mentorship initiative for AI4Research Workshop at AAAI 2025
 - Information extraction and cross-lingual terminology wikification for ACL 2022 D&I Special Initiative, 60-60: Globalization via localization
 
Awards
- NeurIPS Top Reviewer in 2023
 - NAACL 2021 Best Demo Paper Award
 - Entered the finalist in the first Amazon Alexa Prize with $200,000 grant for research (2016)
 
Media Coverage
- #AAAI2025 workshops round-up 1: Artificial intelligence for music, and towards a knowledge-grounded scientific research lifecycle AIhub
 - Conferences & Publications - Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty, Molecule Maker Lab Newsletter - Issue 35
 - AI Breakdown - SciMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty, AI Breakdown
 - AI News (5th June 2023), Samuel Albanie YouTube Blog
 - Illinois CS Papers Earn Top Honors at Recent Conferences, CS @ Illinois News
 - Senior Student Studying Abroad Develops ‘PaperRobot’ to Read Papers and Provide Research Direction, CaiXin Blog
 - PaperRobot: Automatic Research Assistant That Can Generate Drafts of Scientific Ideas, Neurohive
 - Rensselaer Team Is Finalist in $2.5 Million Amazon Alexa Prize, RPI News
 
