• (Jul 2025) Thanks Thomson Reuters and Naver for generous gift and key research collaboration.
• (Apr 2025) Zae Myung Kim won the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, focusing on meta-scaffolding of LLMs.
• (Jan 2025) It's grateful to receive the NSF NAIRR award (280,000 GPU Hours) to build scientific foundational models for trustworthy scientific writing and discovery.
• (Dec 2024) James Mooney won the Amazon MLSys Fellowship for 2025-2026, focusing on Algorithmic and Agentic efficiency. Karin de Langis won the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, focusing on Cognitively Informed Natural Language Generation.
• (Sep 2024) Two papers (Dynamic Multi-reward Alignment, Diversity Extraction) are accepted at EMNLP Main 2024
• (Aug 2024) Thanks Grammarly again for a generous gift and key research collaboration.
• (Jul 2024) I am co-organizing the first workshop on Pluralistic Alignment workshop at NeurIPS 2024.
• (Jun 2024) Excited to receive Agent Benchmark Grant from Open Philanthropy for collceting lawyer benchmark dataset (w Daniel Schwarcz, Brett McDonnell)
• (May 2024) Four papers (Thread-of-Subtlety, CoBBLEr, Self-Video-Alignment, VQA Reasoning) are accepted at ACL 2024
• (Mar 2024) Some of our recent work on writing assistant are featured in UMN CS (link)
• (Dec 2023) Excited to receive a grant from UMN CTSI for the development of AI Assistant for Non-English Speaking Clinical Trial Partipants (/w Jennifer Needle and Gwenyth Fischer)
• (Dec 2023) Thrid In2Writing workshop (focused on "Dark Sides: Envisioning, Understanding, and Preventing Harmful Effects of Writing Assistants") will be held at CHI 2024 in Hawaii.
• (Oct 2023) We are grateful to OpenAI, Cohere, Google, Amazon, and Oracle for their generous support of our computing needs
• (Aug 2023) Excited to receive Cisco Research Award on Generative AI
• (Aug 2023) Excited to receive a genrous gift from Accenture Labs
• (Jun 2023) Excited to receive the UMN Early Innovation Fund
• (Apr 2023) Very honored to receive 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) in 2022-2023 .
• (Nov 2022) Our second In2Writing workshop will be held at CHI 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
• (Oct 2022) Very excited to receive a generous gift from Grammarly .
• (Oct 2022) Minnesota NLP seminar is back in Fall 2022!
• (Jun 2022) Very honored to receive Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award .
• (May 2022) Received the best paper award on human-in-the-loop interative text revision from In2Writing workshop at ACL 2022
• (May 2022) At ACL 2022, our group presents two papers ( iterative text revision and human-in-the-loop interative text revision) and co-organizes Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing) workshop
• (Nov 2021) I am co-organizing "CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision" workshop at NeurIPS 2021.
• (Apr 2021) I will be joining Minnesota CSE as an assistant professor in 2021 Fall.
• (Jun 2020) Joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar, working with Marti A. Hearst.
• (May 2020) Passed my Ph.D thesis defense. Check out my thesis!

Awards and Grants (read more)

• 2025 Thomson Reuters Research Gift Award
• 2025 Naver Research Gift Award
• 2025 DDC Computational Creativity Grant, PI (w Im)
• 2025 MnRI Seed Grant, Co-PI with Hong (PI), Choi, and Wang
• 2025 NSF NAIRR Pilot Award
• 2024 Grammarly Research Gift Award
• 2024 Open Philanthropy, Agent Benchmark Grant, PI (w Daniel Schwarcz, Brett McDonnell)
• 2024 UMN DSI Seed Grant (w Mingyi Hong)
• 2022-2024 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA)
• 2023 UMN CTSI Grant (/w Jennifer Needle and Gwenyth Fischer)
• 2023 Cisco Research Award
• 2023 Accenture Research Gift Award
• 2023 Computing Supports from OpenAI, Cohere, Google, Amazon, and Oracle
• 2023 UMN Early Innovation Fund
• 2023 MnRI Seed Grant (w Karthik Desingh)
• 2022 Grammarly Research Gift Award
• 2022 Best paper award, In2Writing workshop at ACL
• 2022 Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award
• 2018 Top Reviewers, NeurIPS and ACL
• 2018 Allen Institute for AI Research Fellowship
• 2016 CMU Presidential Fellowship
• 2013 SMBA Startup Investment Prize
• 2011 ILJU Foundation Ph.D. Scholarship

Talks (read more)

• (Oct 2025) Talk at May Brodbeck OutReach Series by UMN Philosophy
• (Aug 2025) Talk at Seoul National Univ.
• (Aug 2025) Talk at Korea Univ.
• (Jun 2025) Talk at AI2
• (May 2024) Talk at Megagon Labs with Debarati Das
• (Mar 2024) Guest lecture at Hubbard School of Journalism at UMN
• (Nov 2023) Talk at Thomson Reuters
• (Sep 2023) Guest lecture at Penn State University
• (Sep 2023) Talk at UMN NLP/IE group
• (Aug 2023) Talk at 3M NTFA Symposium
• (May 2023) Talk at Microsoft Research
• (Apr 2023) Panel discussion at UMN Law, ChatGPT and the Future of AI-Assisted Professionals
• (Apr 2023) Interview with UMN CS, Meet the Faculty
• (Apr 2023) Interview with Echo on future of AI in classroom (GPT or GPA)
• (Feb 2023) Talk at Google People+AI Research (PAIR)
• (Dec 2022) Talk at Hyundai AI
• (Nov 2022) Talk at NSF ROSE-HUB
• (Sep 2022) Talk at 3M NTFA Symposium
• (Aug 2022) Talk at Yonsei University
• (Aug 2022) Talk at KAIST CS
• (Aug 2022) Talk at LG AI Research
• (Aug 2022) Talk at Samsung Research
• (Jul 2022) Talk at Grammarly
• (Jul 2022) Talk at Thomson Reuters Labs
• (Mar 2022) Talk at USC ISI AI Seminar
• (Feb 2022) Talk and panel discussion at CMU LTI Seminar
• (Dec 2021) Talk at GaTech NLP Seminar
• (Nov 2021) Talk at Minnesota Robotic Institute Colloquium
• (Nov 2021) Talk at KAIST SE Colloquium
• (Nov 2021) Talk at Naver Labs Europe
• (Aug 2021) Talk at Grammarly AI, Aug 2021
• (Aug 2021) Talk at SNU Summer AI school, Aug 2021
• (March 2021) Talk at University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS Department, March 2021
• (March 2021) Talk at University of Rochester, CS Department, March 2021
• (March 2021) Talk at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, CSE Colloquium, March 2021
• (Feb 2021) Talk at KAIST, AI Department, Feb 2021
• (Nov 2020) Talk at KAIST AI Colloquium, Nov 2020
• (Nov 2020) Talk at GIST EECS Colloquium, Nov 2020
• (July 2020) Talk at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Workshop, July 2020
• (July 2020) Talk at CMU LTI Seminar
• (July 2020) Talk at POSTECH AI Seminar