Research Activities

Awards & Honors (selected)

• Best paper, NAACL 2022

• Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, 2021

• Baidu PhD Scholarship, 2021

• Best paper, WeCNLP 2020

• Best (demo) paper nomination. ACL 2019

Academic Experience

Meta FAIR, Seattle         Research Intern        05/2022-08/2022

• Host: Asli Celikyilmaz

• Mixture of Prompts for Controllable Text Generation

Google NLP/Assistant, New York          Research Intern        09/2020-12/2020

• Host: Manaal Faruqui, Shyam Upadhyay

• Temporal commonsense reasoning in dialog

Allen Institute of AI (AI2), Seattle          Research Intern         06/2019-05/2022

• Host: Yejin Choi

• Commonsense reasoning in natural language generation

Microsoft Research, Redmond         Research Intern        04/2018-07/2018

• Mentors: Jianfeng Gao,  Michel Galley

• Knowledge-grounded dialog systems

Carnegie Mellon University          Research Intern        09/2017-12/2017

• Advisor:  Prof. Tom Mitchell

• Natural language explanation generation for explaining black-box neural network predictions. 

Academic Services

• Area Chair, ACL 2023

• Virtual Infrastructure Chair, ACL 2020

• Co-organizer of NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Learning with Rich Experience: Integration of Learning Paradigms (website)

• PC  member / reviewers for EMNLP, ACL, NAACL, AAAI, etc.