I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UC San Diego. I received my PhD from University of Washington (UW, NLP) working with Yejin Choi. I am taking on new students and postdocs. We also have research positions for MS/undergrad students (UCSD or external). Please check out here.
Research
I work on natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). Current interests include:
- Machine reasoning and generation with large (langauge/multimal/..) models: e.g., compostional constrained generation, reasoning and planning, inference-time control
- Understanding and improving large language/multi-modal models: e.g., attack and defense, evaluation and benchmarking, uncertainty and halluciation
- AI/LLM for science, engineering, health: e.g., interdisciplinary collaboration with domain experts to apply AI and large language models in solving complex problems.
News
- [2024-09] My CSE291: Large Model Reasoning lectures start on September 27th!
- [2024-07] I'm super excited to join UCSD CSE!
- [2024-06] I finished visiting AI2 mosaic as an Young Investigator.
Q-Lab
PhD
- Matthew Ho
- Haoqiang (Murray) Kang
- Isadora White - co-advised with Prithviraj (Raj) Ammanabrolu
Service
- Area Chair, ACL, EMNLP, ICLR 2023, 2024, 2025
- Virtual Chair, ACL 2020, EMNLP 2024