Professional Service, Awards, and Media Coverage

Professional Service

Workshop Organizer

• 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

Area Chair

• ACL Rolling Review (2025-), EMNLP Demo (2024-)

Program Committee

• NAACL-HLT/ACL/EMNLP Tutorials (2025-), ACL Rolling Review (2021-), ACL (2019-), EMNLP (2019-), NAACL (2019-), AACL (2020-), INLG (2019-), COLING (2020-), EACL (2023-), LREC (2022-), COLM (2024-), CCL (2020-), NLPCC (2021-), ACL Demo (2021-), EACL Demo (2023-), EMNLP Demo (2023-), FLLM 2024, COLING Demo (2025-)
• ICML (2020-), NeurIPS (2021-), ICLR (2021-), AISTATS (2025-), AAAI (2020-), IJCAI (2021-)

Journal Reviewer

• Nature Communications Chemistry (2024-), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2025-), Bioinformatics (2024-), 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@ACL (2024-2025), WiNLP@EMNLP 2024, AI4Research@IJCAI 2024, KnowledgeLM@ACL 2024, KnowledgeNLP@ACL 2024, Workshop on Knowledge Augmented Methods for NLP (AAAI 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