Near Future Faculty

  • Chi Han

    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)

  • Zhenhailong Wang

    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)

  • Yuji Zhang

    Yuji Zhang (2023-2025)

    Post-doc, LLM Knowledge Updating, Misinformation Detection, Cultural Norm Aware LLMs

  • Xiusi Chen

    Xiusi Chen (2024-2026)

    Post-doc, Reasoning, Planning and Alignment of Language Agents (SDM Best poster Award Honorable Mention, Intern at Amazon)

  • Jeonghwan Kim

    Jeonghwan Kim (2023-2027)

    PhD Student, Multimodal Large Language Models, Fine-grained Visual Recognition, Knowledge Reasoning (HERE PhD Fellow) (Intern at Meta, Amazon)

  • Cheng Qian

    Cheng Qian (2024-2028)

    PhD student, LLM Agents (CapitalOne ASKS PhD Fellow) (Intern at Salesforce)

    PhD Students

  • Ansel Blume

    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)

  • Charles Yu

    Charles Yu (2021-2026)

    Conditioned Generation, Language Model Debiasing (Intern at Amazon) (Thesis Committee: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Chengxiang Zhai, Kathleen McKeown)

  • 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) (Thesis Committee: Hao Peng, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig)

  • Alexi Gladstone

    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)

  • Hyeonjeong Ha

    Hyeonjeong Ha (2024-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, Multimodal Knowledge Discovery and Reasoning (CapitalOne ASKS PhD Fellow) (Intern at Apple)

  • Aditi Tiwari

    Aditi Tiwari (2024-2028)

    Video Understanding, Efficient Multimodal Learning, Action Recognition (Adobe PhD Fellow) (Intern at Adobe)

  • Thao Thi Bich Nguyen

    Thao Nguyen (2023-2028)

    AI for Scientific Discovery, Co-advised by Prof. Martin Burke

  • Anna Hart

    Anna Hart (2023-2028)

    Faculty Candidate, AI for Bioengineering, Co-advised by Prof. Huimin Zhao (Intern at ORNL)

  • Jiateng Liu

    Jiateng Liu (2025-2029)

    Video Analytics (Intern at Amazon)

  • Shujin Wu

    Shujin Wu (2025-2029)

    Human-centered AI (Amazon PhD Fellow)

  • Kunlun Zhu

    Kunlun Zhu (2026-2029)

    LLM Agents, Multiagent System, Agents for Science

  • Xuejun Zhang

    Xuejun Zhang (2025-2030)

    Multimodal Foundation Models

  • Heng Wang

    Heng Wang (2025-2030)

    Interpretability, Reasoning for Structured Data, LLM Agents (Co-advised by Prof. Jiawei Han)

Master Students