Near Future Faculty

  • Chi Han

    Chi Han (2021-2026)

    PhD Student, Science of Large Language Models (IBM PhD Fellow, Amazon AICE PhD Fellow, Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, ACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at Meta, Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Tong Zhang, Kyunghyun Cho, Christopher D. Manning, Kathleen McKeown)

  • Yuji Zhang

    Yuji Zhang (2023-2025)

    Post-doc, LLM Knowledge Updating, Misinformation Detection, Cultural Norm Aware LLMs

  • Xiusi Chen

    Xiusi Chen (2024-2026)

    Post-doc, Reasoning, Planning and Alignment of Language Agents (SDM Best poster Award Honorable Mention, Intern at Amazon)

  • Jeonghwan Kim

    Jeonghwan Kim (2023-2027)

    PhD Student, Visual Concept Recognition, Knowledge Reasoning (Intern at Amazon, META)

    PhD Students

  • Xiaomeng Jin

    Xiaomeng Jin (2021-2025)

    Adversarial Data Augmentation, LLM Privacy Presevation (Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Chengxiang Zhai, Kai-Wei Chang, Luna Dong)

  • Revanth Gangi Reddy

    Revanth Gangi Reddy (2022-2025)

    News Claim Understanding, Situation Report Generation (Sibel Scholar, Intern at Amazon, AI2, SalesForce) (Thesis Committee: ChengXiang Zhai, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Scott Yih, Dipanjan Das)

  • Carl Norbert Edwards

    Carl Norbert Edwards (2020-2025)

    Joint Learning of Molecules and Language, AI for Science and Science-Inspired AI (Joining GenenTech as Senior Research Scientist, Intern at AI2, GenenTech) (Thesis Committee: Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai, Martin Burke, Kyunghyun Cho, Gabriele Scalia)

  • Ziqi Wang

    Ziqi Wang (2021-2025)

    Knowledge-enhanced Language Representation (Co-advised by Prof. Tong Zhang, Intern at Google, META) (Thesis Committee: Hao Peng, Le Hou)

  • Yangyi Chen

    Yangyi Chen (2022-2026)

    Multimodal Knowledge Extraction (NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at SRI, Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Tong Zhang, Hao Peng, Zhengyuan Yang, Wei Ping)

  • Zhenhailong Wang

    Zhenhailong Wang (2023-2026)

    Neuro-Symbolic Methods for Vision Language Models (Intern at Tencent AI, Microsoft, SalesForce) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Yuxiong Wang, Mohit Bansal, Shih-Fu Chang)

  • Ansel Blume

    Ansel Blume (2020-2026)

    Multimedia Attribute Discovery, Knowledge Learning from Simulation (Co-advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem, Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Luna Dong, Eric Rachlin)

  • Charles Yu

    Charles Yu (2021-2026)

    Conditioned Generation, Language Model Debiasing (Intern at Amazon)

  • Xingyao Wang

    Xingyao Wang (2022-2026)

    LLM Agents (NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship, Intern at Google), Co-Founder of AllHands AI (on leave 2024-)

  • Cheng Qian

    Cheng Qian (2024-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, LLM Agents

  • Hyeonjeong Ha

    Hyeonjeong Ha (2024-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, Multimodal Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning

  • Alexi Gladstone

    Alexi Gladstone (2024-2027)

    World Models, System 2 Thinking, Self-Supervised Learning, Multimodal Learning (Intern at Meta, Palantir)

  • Jiateng Liu

    Jiateng Liu (2025-2028)

    Video Analytics

  • Anna Hart

    Anna Hart (2023-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, AI for Bioengineering, Co-advised by Prof. Huimin Zhao

  • Thao Thi Bich Nguyen

    Thao Nguyen (2023-2028)

    AI for Scientific Discovery, Co-advised by Prof. Ying Diao

  • Shujin Wu

    Shujin Wu (2025-2029)

    Human-centered AI

  • Aditi Tiwari

    Aditi Tiwari (2024-2029)

    Video Understanding, Efficient Multimodal Learning, Action Recognition

  • Xuejun Zhang

    Xuejun Zhang (2025-2030)

    Multimodal Foundation Models

  • Heng Wang

    Heng Wang (2025-2030)

    Interpretability, Reasoning for Structured Data, LLM Agents (Co-advised by Prof. Jiawei Han)

    Undergraduate Students

  • Hongyi Du

    Hongyi Du (2023-)

    LLM Agent (mentored by Xingyao)

  • Sofia Stoica

    Sofia Stoica (2024-)

    CS Stars student, chain of perception reasoning in LVLMs (mentored by Zhenhailong)