I am an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science at UC Davis. I direct the Language Understanding and Knowledge Acquisition (LUKA) Lab. My research focuses on robust and minimally supervised data-driven machine learning for natural language Processing. Most recently, my group's research has been focusing on accountability and security problems of large language models and multi-modal language models. Previously, I was an Assistant Research Professor of Computer Science at USC from 2020 to 2023, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at UPenn from 2019 to 2020. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at UCLA in 2019. Before joining UCLA as a Ph.D. student, I graduated with a Bachelor degree from Fudan University in 2014.
Association committee member.
2026-2027: NAACL Executive Board Member
ACL Special Interested Group on NLP Security (SIGSEC) -- Founding Officer and Secretary
During my spare time, I do a lot of road trips. Oftentimes I go to national parks, and here are the ones I haven't been to yet: Glacier Bay (AK), Kobuk Valley (AK), Lake Clark (AK), National Park of American Samoa, Virgin Islands National Park, Channel Islands (CA), Dry Tortugas (FL).
My favorite band has always been Galneryus. And I also like Gyze and Janne Da Arc.
I'm originally from Shanghai; I consider LA as my second hometown; yet, my favorite city is Vancouver.
I am collecting watches: 336934 | 126720VTNR | 126334 | 131.30.41.21.99.001
| SBGA211 | SBGM239.
