Faculty Candidates Currently/Soon on Academic Job Market

  • Qingyun Wang

    Qingyun Wang (2019-2025)

    Faculty Candidate, Scentiifc Knowledge Extraction and Prediction (NAACL Best Demo Award, Intern at SalesForce, Amazon, AI2) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Jiawei Han, Han Zhao, Graham Neubig, Tom Hope)

  • Chi Han

    Chi Han (2021-2026)

    Faculty Candidate, Theoretical Understanding of Large Language Models (Amazon AICE PhD Fellow, ACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at Meta, Amazon)

    PhD Students

  • Carl Norbert Edwards

    Carl Norbert Edwards (2020-2025)

    Joint Learning of Molecules and Language, AI for Science and Science-Inspired AI (Intern at AI2, GenenTech) (Thesis Committee: Martin Burke)

  • Chenkai Sun

    Chenkai Sun (2020-2024)

    News Response Prediction (ACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at Amazon); (Co-advised by Prof. Chengxiang Zhai, Thesis Committee: Jiawei Han, Michael Bendersky, Kevin Small)

  • Revanth Gangi Reddy

    Revanth Gangi Reddy (2022-2025)

    News Claim Understanding, Situation Report Generation (Sibel Scholar, Intern at Amazon, AI2) (Thesis Committee: ChengXiang Zhai, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Scott Yih, Dipanjan Das)

  • Xiaomeng Jin

    Xiaomeng Jin (2021-2025)

    Adversarial Data Augmentation, LLM Privacy Presevation (Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Chengxiang Zhai, Kai-Wei Chang, Luna Dong)

  • Ziqi Wang

    Ziqi Wang (2021-2025)

    Knowledge-enhanced Language Representation (Co-advised by Prof. Tong Zhang, Intern at Google, META)

  • Yangyi Chen

    Yangyi Chen (2022-2026)

    Multimodal Knowledge Extraction (NAACL2024 Outstanding Paper Award, Intern at SRI, Amazon)

  • Ansel Blume

    Ansel Blume (2020-2026)

    Multimedia Attribute Discovery, Knowledge Learning from Simulation (Co-advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem, Intern at Amazon)

  • Zhenhailong Wang

    Zhenhailong Wang (2023-2026)

    Neuro-Symbolic Methods for Vision Language Models (Intern at Tencent AI, Microsoft, SalesForce)

  • Charles Yu

    Charles Yu (2021-2026)

    Conditioned Generation, Language Model Debiasing (Intern at Amazon)

  • Jeonghwan Kim

    Jeonghwan Kim (2023-2027)

    Faculty Candidate, Visual Concept Recognition, Knowledge Reasoning (Intern at Amazon)

  • Xingyao Wang

    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)

  • Anna Hart

    Anna Hart (2023-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, AI for Bioengineering, Co-advised by Prof. Huimin Zhao

  • Cheng Qian

    Cheng Qian (2024-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, LLM Agents

  • Hyeonjeong Ha

    Hyeonjeong Ha (2024-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, Multimodal Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning

  • Alexi Gladstone

    Alexi Gladstone (2024-2027)

    World Models, System 2 Thinking, SSL, Multimodal Learning, Video Representation Learning, Cognitive Science Inspired AI (Intern at Palantir)

  • Peixuan Han

    Peixuan Han (2024-2029)

    Never Ending Information Extraction through LLMs

    Undergraduate Students

  • Nishi Uppuluri

    Nishi Uppuluri (2023-)

    Dialog Systems (mentored by Revanth)

  • Jae Doo

    Jae Doo (2022-)

    Conversation Correction

  • Kyungha Kim

    Kyungha Kim (2023-)

    Faithful Explainable Fact-Checking (mentored by Steeve)

  • Rishub Tamirisa

    Rishub Tamirisa (2023-)

    NLP for Science (mentored by Carl)

  • Hongyi Du

    Hongyi Du (2023-)

    LLM Agent (mentored by Xingyao)

  • Sofia Maria Stoica

    Sofia Maria Stoica (2024-)

    UIUC CS STARS Program