I'm interested in developing human-centered language technologies. My research is focused on (1) developing interdisciplinary methods for NLP models based on theories in linguistics and cognitive/social sciences, and (2) building interactive NLP systems for scientists and creative writers. My heart is in NLG.

• Intelligent and Interactive NLP systems
• Discourse modeling and planning
• Data-centric NLP
• Linguistic styles
• Neural-symbolic reasoning
• Ethics and biases

• Karin de Langis
• Debarati Das (w/ Jaideep Srivastava)
• Risako Owan (w/ Maria Gini)
• Jaehyung Kim (visiting student at KAIST)
• Zae Myung Kim, 3M fellow
• Anna Martin, CS&E fellow
• James Mooney (starting in 2023 Spring)

See the full list of students and collaborators in Minnesota NLP group. We also co-organize bi-weekly NLP seminar. If you like to join us, please read this page. NOTE: If you are already being advised by someone, please talk to your advisor first and ask them to contact me.

• (Jun 2022) Very honored to receive the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA)
• (Jun 2022) Very honored to receive the 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
• (Feb 2022) Four Ph.D. students are co-organizing Minnesota NLP seminar for Spring 2022
• (Jan 2022) One paper on finding good strategies for data augmentation is accepted to ICLR 2022.
• (Nov 2021) I am co-organizing "CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision" workshop at NeurIPS 2021.
• Three papers (1 main, 1 finding, and 1 workshop) from Minnesota NLP will be presented at EMNLP 2021.
• (July 2021) Our zero-shot language based video localization paper is accepted to ICCV 2021.
• (May 2021) Our cross-style language understanding paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
• (Apr 2021) I will be joining Minnesota CSE as an assistant professor in 2021 Fall.
• (Mar 2021) Talks at KAIST AI, Minnesota CSE, Rochester CS, and Wisconsin CS.
• (Dec 2020) Our ScholarPhi paper is accepted to CHI 2021.
• (Nov 2020) Talks at KAIST AI Colloquium and GIST EECS Colloquium.
• (Sep 2020) Two main papers (self-supervised text planning, sociable dialogue generation) and two workshop papers (document-level definition detection, augmentation for generation) are accepted to EMNLP 2020.
• (Aug 2020) Talk at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Workshop.
• (Aug 2020) Talks at CMU LTI Summer Seminar and POSTECH AI Seminar.
• (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!
• (Mar 2020) Our poterior calibrated training paper is accepted to ACL 2020.

Teaching

• CSCI 8980, Introduction to NLP Research, Spring 2022
• CSCI 5980, NLP with Deep Learning, Fall 2022 (permision code request)

Talks (read more)

• Talk at Samsung Research, Aug 2022

• Talk at Grammarly NLP, Jul 2022

• Talk at Thomson Reuters Research, Jul 2022

• Talk at USC ISI AI Seminar, Mar 2022

• Talk and panel discussion at CMU LTI Seminar, Feb 2022

• Talk at GaTech NLP Seminar, Dec 2021

• Talk at Minnesota Robotic Institute Colloquium, Nov 2021

• Talk at KAIST SE Colloquium, Nov 2021

• Talk at Naver Labs Europe, Nov 2021

• Talk at Grammarly AI, Aug 2021

• Talk at SNU Summer AI school, Aug 2021

• Talk at University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS Department, March 2021

• Talk at University of Rochester, CS Department, March 2021

• Talk at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, CSE Colloquium, March 2021

• Talk at KAIST, AI Department, Feb 2021

• Talk at KAIST AI Colloquium, Nov 2020

• Talk at GIST EECS Colloquium, Nov 2020

• Talk at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Workshop, July 2020

• Talk at CMU LTI Seminar, July 2020

• Talk at POSTECH AI Seminar, July 2020