I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, where I lead the FLAIR Lab. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, collaborating with Heng Ji. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where I worked with Kai-Wei Chang and Nanyun Peng. My research focuses on natural language processing, particularly in developing trustworthy and generalizable language AI systems. These systems aim to understand human concepts, speak human languages, and perform logical reasoning. They are also designed to be robust to semantic-invariant changes and adaptable to new domains and languages. Currently, my research includes several key directions:

For prospective students: I am looking for self-motivated students to join my group in Fall 2025. If you are interested in large language models, multimodal learning, or multilingual NLP, please find more information here.

• [11.2023] Please check out our TextEE project about benchmakring event extraction
• [10.2023] Our paper about easily updated text representations is accepted by EMNLP-Findings 2023
• [09.2023] Please check out our AACL 2023 paper about zero-shot cross-lingual transfer
• [07.2023] Our ParaAMR paper receives ACL 2023 Area Chair Award
• [04.2023] Please check out our five papers accepted by ACL 2023
• [10.2022] Our paper about syntactically controlled paraphrase generation is accepted by EMNLP-Findings 2022
• [04.2022] Our paper about generation-based event extraction for the low-resource setting is accepted by NAACL 2022
• [02.2022] Our paper about zero-shot cross-lingual event argument extraction is accepted by ACL 2022
• [08.2021] Our paper about zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is accepted by EMNLP 2021