My Mentees
I believe research can be very enjoyable collaborative work across different cultural backgrounds, different expertise areas, and different generations. For example, my mentees come from diverse cultural backgrounds: from Bangladesh, Germany, India, Mexico, People’s Republic of China, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.
Current Mentees: I am very glad to supervise the following talented and devoted students (in chronological order of the starting time):
- Zhiheng Lyu (he/him, in Hong Kong, from PRC): 2021 – now. Undergrad research on CausalNLP for interpretability. Undergrad in CS at University of Hong Kong 2020 – 2024.
- Justus Mattern (he/him, in Germany, from Germany): 2021 – now. Undergrad research on CausalNLP for robustness. Undergrad in CS at RWTH Aachen University 2020 – 2023.
- Flavio Schneider (he/him, in Switzerland, from Switzerland): 2021 – now. Master research on NLP for Social Good. Master in CS at ETH 2021 – 2023.
- Fernando Gonzalez (he/him, in Switzerland, from Mexico): 2022 – now. Master research on prompt tuning for IE for NLP4SG. Master in CS at ETH 2020 – 2022.
- Ojasv Kamal (he/him, in India, from India): 2022 – now. Undergrad research on CausalRE and MoralNLP. Undergrad in CS at IIT Kharagpur 2018 – 2023.
- Harshvardhan Srivastava (he/him, in India, from India): 2022 – now. Individual research on causal models for emotion analysis. Member of Technical Staff at Oracle 2021 – Now.
- Jiarui Liu (he/him, in US, from PRC): 2022 – now. Undergrad research on NLP for Social Good. Undergrad in CS at University of Michigan 2019 – 2023.
Previous Mentees: I had wonderful experience with the following previous students:
- Yiwen Ding (she/her, in US, from PRC): 2021 – 2022. Undergrad research on NLP for Social Good and gender bias in AI Scholars. Undergrad in CS at University of Michigan 2018 – 2022.
- Abhinav Lalwani (he/him, in Switzerland, from India): 2021 – 2022. Undergrad research on logical fallacy detection. Undergrad in CS at BITS Pilani 2018 – 2022.
- Yuxin Ren (he/him, in PRC, from PRC): 2021 – 2022. Master research on causality for interpretability. Master in CS at Tsinghua University 2020 – 2023.
- Jad Beydoun (he/him, in US, from US): 2022 – 2022. Undergrad research on NLP for Social Good. Undergrad in CS at University of Michigan 2018 – 2022.
- Luise Woehlke (she/her, in UK, from Germany): 2022. Undergrad research on NLP for Social Good. Undergrad in CS at University of Edinburgh 2020 – 2025.
- Andreas Opedal (he/him, in Switzerland, from Sweden): 2021 – 2022. Master research on CausalNLP. Master in CS at ETH 2019 – 2022. Started PhD at ETH in 2022.
- Sumon Kanti Dey (he/him, in Bangladesh, from Bangladesh): 2021. Individual research on NLP for Social Good. Engineer Scientist at leadbook 2020 – Now.
- Tejas Vaidhya (he/him, in India, from India): 2021. (Research published at EMNLP 2021 x2.) Undergrad research on CausalNLP. Undergrad in CS+Arch at IIT Kharagpur 2017 – 2022. Started Research Master in CS at Mila in 2022.
- Ayush Kaushal (he/him, in India, from India): 2021. (Research published at EMNLP 2021.) Undergrad research on CausalNLP. Undergrad in CS at IIT Kharagpur 2017 – 2021. Started Master in CS at UT Austin in 2021.
- Lea Künstler (she/her, in Switzerland, from Switzerland): 2021. (Research published at Bachelor Thesis.) Undergrad research on automating meta-analysis. Undergrad in CS at ETH 2017 – 2021. Started Master in CS at ETH in 2021.
- Jingwei Ni (he/him, in Hong Kong, from PRC): 2020 – 2021. (Research published at EMNLP 2021 + NAACL 2021.) Undergrad research on CausalNLP on machine translation. Undergrad in CS at University of Hong Kong 2017 – 2021. Started PhD at ETH in 2021.
- Xiaoyu Xing (she/her, in PRC, from PRC): 2020. (Research published at EMNLP 2020.) Master research on robustness. Master in CS at Fudan University 2018 – 2021. Started SDE at Microsoft in 2021.
- Yuchun Dai (he/him, in PRC, from PRC): 2020. Undergrad research on robustness. Undergrad in CS at Fudan University 2016 – 2022.
- Yongyi Yang (he/him, in PRC, from PRC): 2019. (Research published at EMNLP 2020.) Undergrad research on IE. Undergrad in CS at Fudan University 2016 – 2020. Started research at Amazon AI in 2020.
People Empowering Me
During my PhD: I really appreciate the support from
- Prof Bernhard Schoelkopf (MPIÐ)
- Prof Rada Mihalcea (UMich)
- Prof Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH)
- Prof Ryan Cotterell (ETH)
- Prof Kun Zhang (CMU)
- My Dad and Mom
Before my PhD (2018-2020): This is the period when I get to learn what is research, and do preliminary explorations. I am very thankful for the crucial help of
- Dr. Di Jin (PhD from MIT -> Amazon AI)
- Prof Zheng Zhang (Amazon AI & NYU)
- Prof Xipeng Qiu (Fudan University)
- Dr. Qipeng Guo (PhD from Fudan -> Amazon AI)
- Prof Peter Szolovits (MIT)
- Prof Charlotta Lindvall (Harvard & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- Prof Regina Barzilay (MIT)
- Dr. Jiang Guo (Postdoc from MIT)
- Tianxiao Shen (PhD from MIT)
- Prof Patrick Winston (MIT)
- Many inspiring friends from 4 West of the Next House at MIT :).
- My Dad and Mom