About
I am a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. My recent research focuses on large-scale natural language processing and multimodal learning, which includes:
- Building (multimodal) foundation models and vision-language assistant [1 (opens in new tab), 2 (opens in new tab), 3 (opens in new tab)]
- LLM distillation for broad application classes [4 (opens in new tab), 5 (opens in new tab)]
- Domain adaptation of LLMs without specialized training [6 (opens in new tab), 7 (opens in new tab)]
I obtained my Ph.D. in natural language processing and machine learning at Johns Hopkins University (opens in new tab), advised by Benjamin Van Durme (opens in new tab) and Kevin Duh (opens in new tab). My PhD research studies transductive semantic parsing (opens in new tab). My work (opens in new tab) has been nominated for the best paper of ACL. I have served as an Area Chair for EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI & IJCNLP-AACL.