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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