Professional Service, Grants, Awards, and Media Coverage
Professional Service
Workshop Organizing Committee
- Scaling Environments for Agents (SEA) at NeurIPS 2025, Dec 2025
- VISTA: Visionary Innovation in Standards and Technology of GenAI at ICDM 2025, Nov 2025
- AI4Research: Towards a Knowledge-grounded Scientific Research Lifecycle at AAAI 2025, Mar 2025
- 1st Workshop on Language + Molecules (L+M 2024) at ACL 2024, Aug 2024
Session Chair
- ACL, AACL
Area Chair
- ACL Rolling Review, EACL Demo, EMNLP Demo, NeurIPS
Program Committee
- NAACL/ACL/EMNLP Tutorials, ACL Rolling Review, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EMNLP Industry, AACL, INLG, COLING, EACL, LREC, COLM, ACL Demo, EACL Demo, EMNLP Demo, COLING Demo
- ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI
Journal Reviewer
- Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications Chemistry, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Bioinformatics, Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Processing Letters, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Neurocomputing
Workshop Program Committee Member
- RepL4NLP, WiNLP, AI4Research@IJCAI 2024, KnowledgeLM @ACL 2024, KnowledgeNLP (2023-)
Community Services
- Create student mentorship initiative for AI4Research Workshop at AAAI 2025
- Information extraction and cross-lingual terminology wikification for ACL 2022 D&I Special Initiative, 60-60: Globalization via localization
Funding Agency Proposal Review
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Panelist 2026-
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) Panelist 2026-
Grants
- William & Mary Applied Research & Innovation Initiative Full Grant $170,000, 2026
- Google Cloud Research Credits, (2025-2026)
- Co-PI of ACCESS Accelerate Project: CIS240136 AI-Assisted Automated Laboratory with Multimodal Scientific Large Language Models, 2024
- PI of ACCESS Accelerate Project: CIS230280 Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition with Self-Validation, 2023
Awards
- NeurIPS Top Reviewer in 2023
- NAACL 2021 Best Demo Paper Award
- Entered the finalist in the first Amazon Alexa Prize with $100,000 grant for research (2016)
Media Coverage
- #AAAI2025 workshops round-up 1: Artificial intelligence for music, and towards a knowledge-grounded scientific research lifecycle AIhub
- Conferences & Publications - Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty, Molecule Maker Lab Newsletter - Issue 35
- AI Breakdown - SciMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty, AI Breakdown
- AI News (5th June 2023), Samuel Albanie YouTube Blog
- Illinois CS Papers Earn Top Honors at Recent Conferences, CS @ Illinois News
- Senior Student Studying Abroad Develops ‘PaperRobot’ to Read Papers and Provide Research Direction, CaiXin Blog
- PaperRobot: Automatic Research Assistant That Can Generate Drafts of Scientific Ideas, Neurohive
- Rensselaer Team Is Finalist in $2.5 Million Amazon Alexa Prize, RPI News
