For 2024-2025,
Minnesota NLP has 1-2 Ph.D. openings, and
UMN CS has 1-2 faculty openings focused on NLP. Please contact me if you are interested in.
I'm interested in developing
human-centered AI systems.
My primary goal is to develop cognitively-aligned AI models for experts, people, and society (
research statement). Human-centered AI research seeks to bridge the cognitive gap between human and machine, and to advance our understanding of human cognition while creating AI that supports different human groups: expert thinking, societal values, and diverse objectives of individuals.
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Cognitive scaffolding of LLMs: Collect different types of human cognition signals from explanations, explicit thinking traces, eye-tracking, or implicit feedback, and develop cognitively-inspired AI models that are capable of planning, abstraction, and complex reasoning.
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Pushing to the expert-level AI: Develop interactive systems
to facilitate productive and creative collaboration with human experts like scientists, lawyers, and teachers, and
create complex, compositional, and domain-specific expert-level benchmarks
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Societal alignment with pluralistic people values: Develop inclusive NLP systems that align with diverse and subjective perspectives, and develop pluralistic data representation, alignment models, and evaluation metrics.
Writing
(AI or/and Human) Writing, Discourse, Planning
Alignment
Societal Alignment, Diversity Modeling, Personalization
Interaction
Interactive and Collaborative AI systems
Cognition
Perception, Interpretability, Styles
Others