I am an assistant professor at Northeastern University, jointly appointed by ECE and Khoury Computer Science. I am broadly interested in NLP, Human-AI Interaction, and AI safety. Specifically, I investigate AI-driven persuasion, aiming to harness its societal benefits while mitigating its potential harm.
Research Projects
- How AI Persuades Humans: PersuasionForGood, Cicero in Diplomacy, Anti-scam Chatbot, Movie Recommendation
- How to Persuade AI for Safety: Persuasive Jailbreaker, Persuasive Misinformation
- AI's Societal Impact: Donation Persuasion, CultureBank
- Conversational AI: Learning through Interaction, User Sentiment Adaptation
- Privacy in AI: Selective Differential Privacy, Privacy Awareness in AI Agents
About Me
- Assistant Professor, ECE & CS, Northeastern University, Present
- Postdoc, Stanford NLP, Stanford University, 2024
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Columbia University, 2023
- Data Scientist, [24]7.ai, 2018
- M.A. in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
- B.S. in Mathematics, Remin University of China, 2015
Awards/Honors
- MIT Tech Review 35 Innovators under 35, 2024
- Best Social Impact Paper, ACL 2024
- Outstanding Paper, ACL 2024
- Rising Stars in EECS, 2023
- Rising Stars in Machine Learning, 2022
- Best Paper Nomination, ACL 2019
- Dean's Distinguished PhD Fellowship
- Department Citation (top 1), UC Berkeley, 2016
- Speaker at Department Commencement (top 1), UC Berkeley, 2016
Recent Service
- Area Chair, NAACL 2025
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2024
- Area Chair, ACL 2024
- Area Chair, NAACL 2024
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2023
- Area Chair, 17th Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML 2022)
- Workshop Organizer: Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations, ACL 2023 & EMNLP 2024
- Workshop Organizer: Workshop for Conversational AI, ACL 2022