I am an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, also affiliated with the Machine Learning Center (ML@GT) at Georgia Tech. I am interested in Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. My research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially-aware intelligent systems to support human-human and human-computer interaction at scale.
Prospective students:
We are always looking for PhD students to join our lab (apply here). I'm also happy to work with masters or undergraduate students at Georgia Tech. If you are interested, please send me an email.
News
- Selected for the 2021 AAAI New Faculty Highlights Program
- Received Salesforce AI Research Grant to work on Learning with Limited Data for Structured Prediction
- Named among IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2020
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science Class of 2021
- Received Spring 2021 GVU/IPaT/GTRI Seed Grant with Lindsey Bullinger to work on COVID-19 and Child Maltreatment
- The Second Annual Georgia Tech Data Science for Social Good (DS4SG) workshop
- Our work on Online Socialization won Best Paper Honorable Mention at CSCW 2020.
- Six papers accepted by EMNLP'20, covering conversation summarization, NER, generation, and persuasion in language.
- Learning Machines: Natural Language Processing Explained with Diyi Yang
- Social NLP, with Diyi Yang #NLPHighlights Podcast [link]
- Georgia Tech NLP Seminar Goes Online
- Will AI Help Identify Bias ... or Perpetuate It?, with Diyi Yang, The Interaction Hour [link]
About Me
- Assistant Professor, the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, 2019.8 - Present
- Post-doc, Google AI (NYC), 2019.3 - 2019.7
- Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2015.8 - 2019.2
- M.S., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2013.8 - 2015.5
- B.S., ACM Honored Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2009.9 - 2013.7
Selected Awards/Honors
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, 2021
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2021
- IEEE AI's 10 to Watch, 2020
- Salesforce AI Research Grant, 2020
- CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2020
- Facebook Oversight Board Research Award, 2020
- ICWSM Best Reviewer, 2019
- SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2019
- Facebook PhD Fellowship, 2017-2019
- Rising Star in EECS, Stanford, 2017
- Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowship, 2016
- ICWSM Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2016
- EMNLP Inaugural Notable Data Set Award, 2015
- Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2012
- Champion in KDD Cup 2012, Track 1 (Team ACMClass@SJTU), 2012
Recent Service
- Area Chair, ACL 2021, Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Senior Area Chair, NAACL 2021, Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis
- Area Chair, AKBC 2021, AI Fairness
- Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2021
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2020, Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Area Chair, ACL 2020, Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Area Chair, CSCW 2020
- Senior Program Committee, CIKM 2020
- Data Challenge Chair, ICWSM 2020
- Area Chair, ACL 2019, Social Media
- Area Chair, NAACL 2019, Text Mining
- Associate Chair, CHI 2019 Late Breaking Work (LBW)
- Co-organizer, Widening NLP @ACL 2019, @NAACL 2018
- PC Member/Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CSCW, CHI, ICWSM, TOCHI, LREC, CoNLL, SEM, BlackBoxNLP, WNUT
Recent Talks
- 02/2021 Talk at Cognitive Services ResearchGroup in Microsoft
- 12/2020 Talk at Allen Institute for AI
- 11/2020 Talk at Columbia University NLP Seminar
- 11/2020 Talk at Stanford NLP Group
- 11/2020 Talk at 4th Workshop on NLP and CSS @ EMNLP 2020
- 08/2020 Talk at Chinese CSCW Summer School
- 07/2020 Talk at AKBC 2020
- 05/2020 Talk at Working Conference on AI, Technology, and Negotiation, Harvard University
- 03/2020 Talk at Workshop on Machine Learning, Theory and Method in Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study
- 02/2020 Talk at Mailchimp, Atlanta
- 01/2020 Talk at Salesforce
- 01/2020 Talk at RE Work
- 01/2020 Talk at GVU Brown Bag Seminar, Georgia Tech
- 11/2019 Talk at UMass Amherst
- 11/2019 Talk at UT Austin
- 10/2019 Talk at Workshop on Language, Technology, and Society, Georgia Tech
- 09/2019 Talk at NYU Center of Data Science
- 07/2019 Talk at Bloomberg
- 02/2019 Talk at National Taiwan University
- 11/2018 Talk at Bocconi University
- 11/2018 Talk at Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text (W-NUT) at EMNLP