I have co-founded a new startup company Medicas AI and serve as a CTO and Board Member, focusing on patient-centric AI for Drug Discovery. We’re currently hiring Founding AI Engineers who are passionate about advancing healthcare through cutting-edge AI.
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I am deeply honored to be named an ACL Fellow. This recognition carries the love and guidance of the countless people who have lifted me up, my students, PhD advisor Prof. Ralph Grishman, mentors, friends, and family.
My super-star PhD student Chi Han (Science of Large Language Model) is on academic job market looking for faculty positions to start in Fall 2026, Chi won NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, ACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, selected as IBM PhD Fellow, Amazon AICE PhD Fellow, and Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, and has given a conference tutorial at AAAI2025 as a sole presenter.
I also have two awesome post-docs looking for faculty positions to start in Fall 2026: Xiusi Chen and Yuji Zhang.
Upcoming keynote speeches: ``Reconstructing Camera Poses for 3D Spatial Reasoning" at ICLR2026 Workshop on Efficient Spatial Reasoning; ``mCLM2.0: A Modular Chemical Language Model that Generates Functional and Makeable Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) Devices" at ICLR2026 on AI for Accelerated Materials Design (AI4Mat).
I have multiple positions for post-docs, PhD/master RAs and interns available, please drop an email if interested. I will not be able to reply all emails but will check all CVs carefully. Please focus on telling me about yourself instead of your thoughts about my work. For PhD application please indicate me as one of the potential advisors if you are interested in working with me. For our recent research interests please check our publication page, with a focus on knowledge+LLM, Science-inspired AI, agentic AI, never-ending knowledge acquisition, and multimodal knowledge representation and multimodal models.
