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Heng Ji
Director
Faculty
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Chi Han (2021-2026)
PhD Student, Science of Large Language Models (IBM PhD Fellow, Amazon AICE PhD Fellow, Mavis Future Faculty Fellow, ACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at Meta, Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Tong Zhang, Kyunghyun Cho, Christopher D. Manning, Kathleen McKeown)
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Zhenhailong Wang (2023-2026)
Neuro-Symbolic Methods for Vision Language Models (Amazon PhD Fellow) (Intern at Tencent AI, Microsoft, SalesForce, Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Yuxiong Wang, Mohit Bansal, Shih-Fu Chang)
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Yuji Zhang (2023-2025)
Post-doc, LLM Knowledge Updating, Misinformation Detection, Cultural Norm Aware LLMs
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Xiusi Chen (2024-2026)
Post-doc, Reasoning, Planning and Alignment of Language Agents (SDM Best poster Award Honorable Mention, Intern at Amazon)
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Jeonghwan Kim (2023-2027)
PhD Student, Multimodal Large Language Models, Fine-grained Visual Recognition, Knowledge Reasoning (HERE PhD Fellow) (Intern at Meta, Amazon)
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Cheng Qian (2024-2028)
PhD student, LLM Agents (CapitalOne ASKS PhD Fellow) (Intern at Salesforce)
Near Future Faculty
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Denghui Zhang (2025)
LLM Trustworthiness, Reasoning via RL
Visiting Faculty
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Ansel Blume (2020-2026)
Multimedia Attribute Discovery, Knowledge Learning from Simulation (Co-advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem, Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Luna Dong, Eric Rachlin)
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Charles Yu (2021-2026)
Conditioned Generation, Language Model Debiasing (Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Chengxiang Zhai, Kathleen McKeown)
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Xingyao Wang (2022-2027)
LLM Agents (NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship, Intern at Google), Co-Founder of AllHands AI (on leave 2024-2025) (Thesis Committee: Hao Peng, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig)
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Alexi Gladstone (2024-2028)
PhD student, World Models, System 2 Thinking, Self-Supervised Learning, Multimodal Learning (NSF Graduate Research Fellow) (Intern at Meta, Palantir) (Thesis Committee: Yann Lecun, Yilun Du)
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Hyeonjeong Ha (2024-2028)
Faculty Candidate, Multimodal Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning (CapitalOne ASKS PhD Fellow) (Intern at Apple)
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Aditi Tiwari (2024-2028)
Video Understanding, Efficient Multimodal Learning, Action Recognition (Adobe PhD Fellow) (Intern at Adobe)
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Thao Nguyen (2023-2028)
AI for Scientific Discovery, Co-advised by Prof. Martin Burke
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Anna Hart (2023-2028)
Faculty Candidate, AI for Bioengineering, Co-advised by Prof. Huimin Zhao (Intern at ORNL)
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Jiateng Liu (2025-2029)
Video Analytics (Intern at Amazon)
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Shujin Wu (2025-2029)
Human-centered AI (Amazon PhD Fellow)
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Kunlun Zhu (2026-2029)
LLM Agents, Multiagent System, Agents for Science
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Xuejun Zhang (2025-2030)
Multimodal Foundation Models
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Heng Wang (2025-2030)
Interpretability, Reasoning for Structured Data, LLM Agents (Co-advised by Prof. Jiawei Han)
PhD Students
Master Students
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Khanh Duy Nguyen (2024-2026)
HCI, Human-centered AI
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Lai Jiang (2025-2027)
Reasoning
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Bingxuan Li (2025-)
Multi-modality Understanding and Generation, Agent
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Ying Shen (2025-)
Language and Vision
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Ninad Daithankar(2025-)
Visual Representation Learning/Self-Supervised Learning
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Jiayu Liu(2026-)
Robust LLM Agents
Visiting/Rotating Students
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Sofia Stoica (2024-)
CS Stars student, chain of perception reasoning in LVLMs
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Sid Dayaneni (2025-)
Energy based models