News

• PhD graduate on Academic Job Market to start in Fall 2023: Manling Li - my absolutely best PhD graduate in my career so far, interview her before it's getting too late! She has been selected as EECS Rising Star, DARPA Riser and Microsoft PhD Fellow.
• I have many post-doc, research scientist, RAs and software engineer positions available to work on information extraction related research on news domain and scientific domain, please drop me an email if interested.
• Received a new award to work on fake news propagation pattern mining, thanks DARPA!
• Can we predict the future or the past? New paper on Schema-guided Event Graph Completion.
• Carl Edwards and Tuan Lai developed a translator between molecules and natural language!
• Fake news detectors trained from machine generated fake news don't work so well on detecting human-generated fake news. My genius student Kung-Hsiang Huang has proposed a solution in his new work "Faking Fake News for Real Fake News Detection: Propaganda-loaded Training Data Generation". This work has attracted media attention.
• Upcoming National Podcast: ``AI for Scientific Discovery".
• Upcoming Keynote Speech: ``Event Extraction for 5,000 Types'' at EMNLP2022 Workshop on Massively Multilingual Natural Language Understanding;
• Upcoming Tutorials: "The Battlefront of Combating Misinformation and Coping with Media Bias" at KDD2022 and AACL2022; "New Frontiers of Scientific Text Mining: Tasks, Data, and Tools" at KDD2022.
• Upcoming Invited Talks: ``Event Extraction for 5,000 Types'' at AKBC2022 Workshop on Weakly Supervised Information Extraction.
• Wrote some notes about research skills for new students: "the art of doing good research".
• Gave a controversial speech "Call me a leader, not a woman leader" and its Chinese translation, and its high school version.
• Been at news: Cross-cultural Understanding through Norm Discovery; NAACL2021 Best Demo Paper Award; DARPA SemaFor Project; Misinformation correction; Army Research Lab news about our work on cross-lingual structure transfer ; COVID-19 Knowledge Graph Construction and here; Feminism; DARPA KAIROS project.