I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, affiliated with the NLP Group, HCI Group, Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). I am interested in Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. My research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction.
Prospective students and postdocs, please check out this page on how to get involved.
Recent Projects
- Continually Learning with Limited Text Data: [ACL 2022], [ACL 2020]
- Dialect Robust Language Understanding and Adaptation: [ACL 2022], [Multi-VALUE]
- Human-Centric Generation: [NAACL 2021a], [EMNLP 2020a], [EMNLP 2020c]
- Socially Responsible NLP: [EMNLP 2021a], [CSCW 2021a], [AAAI 2020]
- Language and Social Factors (e.g., framing, persuasion, humor): [NAACL 2021b], [NAACL 2019], [EMNLP 2015]
- NLP for Social Good (e.g., mental health): [CSCW 2022], [SIGCHI 2019]
News
- [05/2022] Our team has received ACL Outstanding Paper for positive reframing!
- [03/2022] We're organizing the First Annual Women in Data Science Workshop at Georgia Tech.
- [03/2022] Excited to visit Simons Institute for the Cluster on AI and Humanity this summer!
- [03/2022] Very honored and excited to receive the NSF CAREER Award!
- [03/2022] Very honored to receive the 2022 GT Chapter Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award.
- [11/2021] Very honored to be selected as a Samsung AI Researcher of the Year in 2021
- [10/2021] Our team has received Two Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards at CSCW 2021 :-)
- [10/2021] Our work on Mitigating Racial Biases in Toxicity Detection won Best Student Paper Award at EAAMO!
- [09/2021] Very honored to receive the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award.
- [09/2021] Very honored to receive the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.
- [08/2021] Proud to be part of the team - NSF AI Institute (AI-CARING)!
- [05/2021] Caleb Ziems received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- [05/2021] Our Work on Parenting Support Groups won Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at SIGCHI 2021.
- [05/2021] Organize Computational Social Science Workshop for scholars from the great Atlanta area this summer
- [02/2021] Selected for the 2021 AAAI New Faculty Highlights Program
- [01/2021] Named among IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2020
- [01/2021] Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science Class of 2021
- Social NLP, with Diyi Yang #NLPHighlights Podcast [link]
- Will AI Help Identify Bias ... or Perpetuate It?, with Diyi Yang, The Interaction Hour [link]
About Me
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department at Stanford, 2022.9 - Present
- Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, 2019.8 - 2022.8
- Post-doc, Google AI (NYC), 2019.3 - 2019.7
- Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2015.8 - 2019.2
- M.S., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2013.8 - 2015.5
- B.S., ACM Honored Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2009.9 - 2013.7
Selected Awards/Honors
- Gabilan Faculty Fellow, Stanford, 2022
- ACL Outstanding Paper, 2022
- SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2022
- NSF CAREER Award, 2022
- GT Chapter Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2022
- Amazon Faculty Research Award, 2022
- Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, 2021
- Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, 2021
- Intel Rising Star Award, 2021
- JPMorgan Faculty Research Award, 2021
- Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, CoC, Georgia Tech, 2021
- The Lester Endowment Award, CoC, Georgia Tech, 2021
- SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2021
- Amazon Faculty Research Award, 2021
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, 2021
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2021
- IEEE AI's 10 to Watch, 2020
- Salesforce AI Research Grant, 2020
- Amazon Faculty Research Award, 2020
- CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2020
- Facebook Oversight Board Research Award, 2020
- ICWSM Best Reviewer, 2019
- Two SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2019
- Facebook PhD Fellowship, 2017-2019
- Rising Star in EECS, Stanford, 2017
- Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowship, 2016
- ICWSM Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2016
- EMNLP Inaugural Notable Data Set Award, 2015
- Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2012
- Champion in KDD Cup 2012, Track 1 (Team ACMClass@SJTU), 2012
Recent Service
- Senior Area Chair, ACL, 2023
- Area Chair, ICRL 2023
- Senior Area Chair, EMNLP, 2022
- General Chair, ICWSM 2022
- Ethics Chair, NAACL 2022
- Senior Area Chair, ACL, 2022
- Area Chair, NeurIPS 2022
- Area Chair, ICLR 2022
- Associate Chair, CHI 2022
- Action Editor, ACL Rolling Review
- Student Volunteer Coordinator and Scholarship Chair, EMNLP 2021
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2021, Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
- Area Chair, ACL 2021, Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Senior Area Chair, NAACL 2021, Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis
- Area Chair, AKBC 2021, AI Fairness
- Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2021
- Editorial Board, Computer Speech and Language Journal
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2020, Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Area Chair, ACL 2020, Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Area Chair, CSCW 2020
- Senior Program Committee, CIKM 2020, CIKM 2021
- Data Challenge Chair, ICWSM 2020
- Area Chair, ACL 2019, Social Media
- Area Chair, NAACL 2019, Text Mining
- Associate Chair, CHI 2019 Late Breaking Work (LBW)
- Co-organizer, Widening NLP @ACL 2019, @NAACL 2018
- PC Member/Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CSCW, CHI, ICWSM, TOCHI, LREC, CoNLL, SEM, CL, TACL
Recent Talks
- 12/2022 Talk at AI Quorum Symposia, MBZUAI
- 11/2022 Roundtable on Promoting Fairness in AI, Asia Society
- 10/2022 Talk at IBM Almaden NLP Seminar
- 10/2022 Talk at Tsinghua University
- 08/2022 Talk at University of Pittsburgh
- 07/2022 Invited Talk at the 2nd Bridging HCI and NLP Workshop @ NAACL
- 07/2022 Invited Talk at the 2nd Trustworthy NLP Workshop @ NAACL
- 05/2022 Talk at the Spotlight Talks by Young Rising Stars at ACL 2022
- 05/2022 Talk at Intel
- 04/2022 Talk at CMU K-12 Summit on AI for Social Good
- 04/2022 Keynote Talk at the Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing Workshop @ ICLR
- 04/2022 Talk at the Socially Responsible Machine Learning Workshop @ ICLR
- 04/2022 Talk at ML Seminar at Vanderbilt University
- 02/2022 Talk at NLP Seminar at University of California Santa Barbara
- 02/2022 Talk at University of Maryland
- 12/2021 Talk at Rising Star Talk Series at Alexa
- 11/2021 Talk at AI Seminar at USC Information Sciences Institute
- 10/2021 Talk at NLP Seminar at University of Pennsylvania
- 10/2021 Talk at SRI International
- 10/2021 Talk at Natural Language Processing Seminar at University of Pittsburgh
- 08/2021 Keynote Talk at The 10th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)
- 08/2021 Talk at ByteDance AI Lab
- 06/2021 Talk at University of Glasgow
- 06/2021 Talk at Georgia Tech AI4ALL
- 06/2021 Keynote Talk at ICWSM 2021 Data Challenge Workshop
- 06/2021 Talk at National University of Singapore
- 05/2021 Talk at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
- 04/2021 Talk at University of Washington
- 04/2021 Panelist at Woodward Academy High School
- 02/2021 Talk at Cognitive Services Research Group in Microsoft
- 12/2020 Talk at Allen Institute for AI
- 11/2020 Talk at Columbia University NLP Seminar
- 11/2020 Talk at Stanford NLP Group
- 11/2020 Talk at 4th Workshop on NLP and CSS @ EMNLP 2020
- 08/2020 Talk at Chinese CSCW Summer School
- 07/2020 Talk at AKBC 2020
- 05/2020 Talk at Working Conference on AI, Technology, and Negotiation, Harvard University
- 03/2020 Talk at Workshop on Machine Learning, Theory and Method in Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study