Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
I’m an Associate Professor and Innovation Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, where I co-direct the OSU NLP group, co-lead the Foundational AI team in the ICICLE AI Institute and lead the Machine Learning Foundations team in the Imageomics Institute. I got my PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara and my bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, both in Computer Science. I also spent some fun time as a researcher at Microsoft. I’m a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow and received several best/outstanding paper awards from CVPR and ACL.
I’m broadly interested in artificial intelligence, with a primary interest in the role of language as a vehicle for reasoning and communication. These days, I spend much of my time thinking about language agents [blog, tutorial], an emerging class of AI agents characterized by their language understanding and production capabilities.
