Awards & Grants
- 2026 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
- 2025 Google Research Award, PI
- 2025 UMN DSI GenAI4Science Seed Grant, PI (with Wang and Hong)
- 2025 Thomson Reuters Research Gift Award, PI
- 2025 Naver Research Gift Award, PI
- 2025 Digital Design Center (DDC) Computational Creativity Grant, PI (/w PI Hyunjoo Im)
- 2025 UMN MnRI Seed Grant, PI (Jiarong Hong), Co-PIs (Dongyeop Kang, Changhyn Choi, and Jianxun 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 Needle and 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