I am an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, also affiliated with the Machine Learning Center (ML@GT), the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), and the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech. I am interested in Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. My research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction.
Prospective students: We are always looking for PhD students to join our lab (apply here). I'm also happy to work with masters or undergraduate students at Georgia Tech. If you are interested, please send me an email.
Recent Research
- Learning with Limited Text Data, Data Augmentation: [EMNLP 2021c], [ACL 2021], [EMNLP 2020f], [ACL 2020]
- Conversation/Dialogue Summarization: [EMNLP 2021d], [NAACL 2021d], [EMNLP 2020e]
- User Centered Text Generation: [NAACL 2021a], [EMNLP 2020a], [EMNLP 2020b], [EMNLP 2020c]
- Bias and Hate Speech: [EMNLP 2021a], [EMNLP 2021b], [CSCW 2021a], [CSCW 2021b], [AAAI 2020]
- Language and Social Factors (e.g., framing, persuasion, social roles, humor): [EMNLP 2021e], [AAAI 2021], [NAACL 2021b], [EMNLP 2020d], [NAACL 2019], [SIGCHI 2019], [EMNLP 2015]
- NLP for Social Good (e.g., mental health, crowdfunding): [SIGCHI 2021], [CSCW 2021c], [ICWSM 2020]
News
- Shirley and Will led the Georgia Tech Graduate Application Support Program to help underrepresented applicants
- Very honored to be selected as a Samsung AI Researcher of the Year in 2021
- Our team has received Two Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards at CSCW 2021 :-)
- Our work on Mitigating Racial Biases in Toxic Language Detection won Best Student Paper Award at EAAMO!
- Very honored to receive the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award.
- Very honored to receive the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.
- Proud to be part of the team - NSF AI Institute (AI-CARING)!
- Caleb Ziems received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- Our Work on Parenting Support Groups won Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at SIGCHI 2021.
- Organize Computational Social Science Workshop and Datathon for scholars from the great Atlanta area this summer
- Selected for the 2021 AAAI New Faculty Highlights Program
- Named among IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2020
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science Class of 2021
- Received Spring 2021 GVU/IPaT/GTRI Seed Grant with Lindsey Bullinger to work on COVID-19 and Child Maltreatment
- The Second Annual Georgia Tech Data Science for Social Good (DS4SG) workshop
- Learning Machines: Natural Language Processing Explained with Diyi Yang
- Social NLP, with Diyi Yang #NLPHighlights Podcast [link]
- Georgia Tech NLP Seminar Goes Online
- Will AI Help Identify Bias ... or Perpetuate It?, with Diyi Yang, The Interaction Hour [link]
About Me
- Assistant Professor, the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, 2019.8 - Present
- Post-doc, Google AI (NYC), 2019.3 - 2019.7
- Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2015.8 - 2019.2
- M.S., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2013.8 - 2015.5
- B.S., ACM Honored Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2009.9 - 2013.7
Selected Awards/Honors
- Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, 2021
- Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, 2021
- Intel Rising Star Award, 2021
- JPMorgan Faculty Research Award, 2021
- Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, CoC, Georgia Tech, 2021
- The Lester Endowment Award, CoC, Georgia Tech, 2021
- SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2021
- Amazon Faculty Research Award, 2021
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, 2021
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights, 2021
- IEEE AI's 10 to Watch, 2020
- Salesforce AI Research Grant, 2020
- Amazon Faculty Research Award, 2020
- CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2020
- Facebook Oversight Board Research Award, 2020
- ICWSM Best Reviewer, 2019
- Two SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2019
- Facebook PhD Fellowship, 2017-2019
- Rising Star in EECS, Stanford, 2017
- Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowship, 2016
- ICWSM Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2016
- EMNLP Inaugural Notable Data Set Award, 2015
- Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2012
- Champion in KDD Cup 2012, Track 1 (Team ACMClass@SJTU), 2012
Recent Service
- General Chair, ICWSM 2022
- Ethics Chair, NAACL 2022
- Senior Area Chair, ACL, 2022
- Area Chair, ICLR 2022
- Associate Chair, CHI 2022
- Action Editor, ACL Rolling Review
- Student Volunteer Coordinator and Scholarship Chair, EMNLP 2021
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2021, Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
- Area Chair, ACL 2021, Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Senior Area Chair, NAACL 2021, Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis
- Area Chair, AKBC 2021, AI Fairness
- Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2021
- Editorial Board, Computer Speech and Language Journal
- Area Chair, EMNLP 2020, Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Area Chair, ACL 2020, Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Area Chair, CSCW 2020
- Senior Program Committee, CIKM 2020, CIKM 2021
- Data Challenge Chair, ICWSM 2020
- Area Chair, ACL 2019, Social Media
- Area Chair, NAACL 2019, Text Mining
- Associate Chair, CHI 2019 Late Breaking Work (LBW)
- Co-organizer, Widening NLP @ACL 2019, @NAACL 2018
- PC Member/Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CSCW, CHI, ICWSM, TOCHI, LREC, CoNLL, SEM, CL, TACL
Recent Talks
- 12/2021 Talk at Rising Star Talk Series at Alexa
- 11/2021 Talk at AI Seminar at USC Information Sciences Institute
- 10/2021 Talk at NLP Seminar at University of Pennsylvania
- 10/2021 Talk at SRI International
- 10/2021 Talk at Adobe
- 10/2021 Talk at Natural Language Processing Seminar at University of Pittsburgh
- 08/2021 Keynote Talk at The 10th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)
- 08/2021 Talk at ByteDance AI Lab
- 06/2021 Talk at University of Glasgow
- 06/2021 Talk at Georgia Tech AI4ALL
- 06/2021 Keynote Talk at ICWSM 2021 Data Challenge Workshop
- 06/2021 Talk at National University of Singapore
- 05/2021 Talk at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
- 04/2021 Talk at University of Washington
- 04/2021 Panelist at Woodward Academy High School
- 02/2021 Talk at Cognitive Services Research Group in Microsoft
- 12/2020 Talk at Allen Institute for AI
- 11/2020 Talk at Columbia University NLP Seminar
- 11/2020 Talk at Stanford NLP Group
- 11/2020 Talk at 4th Workshop on NLP and CSS @ EMNLP 2020
- 08/2020 Talk at Chinese CSCW Summer School
- 07/2020 Talk at AKBC 2020
- 05/2020 Talk at Working Conference on AI, Technology, and Negotiation, Harvard University
- 03/2020 Talk at Workshop on Machine Learning, Theory and Method in Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study
- 02/2020 Talk at Mailchimp, Atlanta
- 01/2020 Talk at Salesforce
- 01/2020 Talk at RE Work
- 01/2020 Talk at GVU Brown Bag Seminar, Georgia Tech
- 11/2019 Talk at UMass Amherst
- 11/2019 Talk at UT Austin
- 10/2019 Talk at Workshop on Language, Technology, and Society, Georgia Tech
- 09/2019 Talk at NYU Center of Data Science
- 07/2019 Talk at Bloomberg
- 02/2019 Talk at National Taiwan University
- 11/2018 Talk at Bocconi University
- 11/2018 Talk at Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text (W-NUT) at EMNLP