Manling Li has been selected as DARPA Riser! Congratulations Manling!
Carl Edwards and Tuan Lai developed a translator between molecules and natural language!
Excited to visit Vietnam this summer for the VinUni-Illinois SmartHealth Center.
I'm giving a plenary short talk at ACL2022 about Big Ideas in NLP.
Five papers got accepted by NAACL2022, all led by my six amazing woman students!
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!
Another new line of work "CLIP-Event" by Manling Li on Multimedia event structure representation is accepted by CVPR2022!
Prof. Jiawei Han’s amazing student Zoey Li created a new framework on few-shot event detection, 20%+ absolute fscore gain in both supervised and few-shot settings.
Very happy to have Hongwei Wang's paper about chemical reaction aware representation learning accepted by ICLR2022, co-advised by the very best Kyunghyun Cho.
Upcoming National Podcast: ``AI for Scientific Discovery".
Upcoming Keynote Speech: ``Building an Event Extractor for Any Language within Half an Hour''EMNLP2022 Workshop on Massively Multilingual Natural Language Understanding; ``Talk Like a Bookworm''at ACL2022 Workshop on E-commerce for NLP.
Upcoming Tutorials: "The Battlefront of Combating Misinformation and Coping with Media Bias" at AACL2022; "New Frontiers of Information Extraction" at NAACL2022.
Upcoming Invited Talks: ``What's in a Chemical Entity?''at IBM Research; ``Information Surgery: Faking Multimedia Fake News for Real Fake News Detection'' at 2022 Midwest Big Data Summer School at Iowa State University
I'm hiring! UIUC side: research faculty members, research scientists, post-docs, PhD/master/undergraduate RAs, summer interns, visitors, program managers and software engineers. Amazon side: research scientists, software engineers and interns. Drop me a CV if interested.
Congratulations my genius student Manling Li on being selected as Microsoft Fellow, Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, and receiving a highly prestigeous C.L. and Jane W.-S. Liu Award! She is on news!