Google Scholar, DBLP, wenpeng@psu.edu. W328 Westgate Building, University Park, PA 16802
💥I'm always looking for highly-motivated students to work with me on broad NLP/CV/AI problems. Please feel free to reach out with your CV and, optionally, prior publications!
Hi, I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, and an Associate in the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State, where I lead the AI4Research lab.
AI Accelerates Research
AI assists research lifecycle [Arxiv 2025]
Paper Review [EMNLP 2024]
AI for Math [EACL'24, Arxiv'24-1, AAAI'25]
AI for Healthcare [Nature Digital Medicine, 2021, COLING'25],
Human-Centered AI
Trustworthy AI: bias [Arxiv'24], explainability ([arXiv 2020], [arXiv'20]), robustness [ACL'23]), identifying social norm violation (Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2023)
AI Equity
LLMs, NLP, Computer Vision
LLMs: bias [Arxiv'24], MT [ICLR'24], error [COLM'24], creativity [multilingual narratives, AAAI'25], knowledge editing [unlearning, ACL'24], self-improvement [Arxiv'24]
Multimodality:[ACL'24, IJCAI'24 workshop]
Instruction following: [ACL2022], [ACL2023], [EACL'24], [Computational Linguistics 2024], [ICLR'24].
Machine Learning
Professional Activities:
Co-Chair/Organizer: Wise-Supervision 2022 (workshop co-located with AKBC2022); SciCap Challenge @ IJCAI 2024, AI4Research 2024 (workshop co-located with IJCAI'24), AI4Research 2025 (workshop co-located with AAAI'25), SciSoc LLM Workshop: Large Language Models for Scientific and Societal Advances (workshop co-located with KDD'25)
Senior Area Chairs: NAACL'2021, ACL Rolling Review (ARR), IJCNLP-AACL'23 ("Question Answering" track), LREC-COLING'24 ("Language Modeling" track), EACL'24 ("Question Answering" track), EMNLP'24 ("Low-resource Methods for NLP" track), EMNLP'25 ("Mathematical, Symbolic, and Logical Reasoning in NLP" track)
Area Chairs: NAACL'2019, ACL'2019, ACL'2021, NLPCC'21&23 ("Fundamentals of NLP" track), CCL'23 ("NLP Applications" track), ACL'2023 ("Information Extraction" track), EMNLP'23 ("Information Extraction" track)
Work&Education Experience:
Assistant Professor. Temple University. Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022
Senior Research Scientist. Salesforce Research, Palo Alto. Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2021.
Postdoc. Supervisor: Prof. Dan Roth. University of Pennsylvania. Oct 2017 - July 2019.
Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Hinrich Schütze. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. 2017
Intern, IBM Watson, Yorktown Heights, NY USA. Feb. 27 -- May 30, 2016.
MSc. Peking University, China, 2013.
BSc. Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2010.
Keynotes & Invited Talks:
Keynote: "LLM Editing and Unlearning". The 2nd Workshop Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models @ AAAI 2025. March 4, 2025
"LLMs Assist NLP Researchers: Critique Paper (Meta-)Reviewing". Large Knowledge-Enhanced Models workshop @IJCAI 2024. Aug. 3, 2024
"Unveiling Translation Excellence: Shifting Focus from Scores to Comparative Evaluation". CISS'24. March 13, 2024
"Generalizable Information Extraction". AWS AI Labs. March 14, 2023
"Learning from Task Instructions -- A New Learning Paradigm for NLP". Penn State University. July 28, 2022
"Representation Learning in Textual Entailment'', National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, USA, Dec. 10, 2018
"Neural Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs'', University of Oxford & Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. March 2017
Honors and Awards:
"Best Paper Award (dataset track)" by The 2nd AI4Research Workshop in AAAI'25.
Awarded "2022 Global Top Chinese Young Scholars in Artificial Intelligence"
Paper awarded "Area Chair Favorites" in COLING'2018
Google Grant, *SEM@NAACL'2018
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (国家优秀自费留学生奖学金), 2016
Baidu Ph.D. Fellowship, 2014 & 2015
Google Travel Grant for ACL2014
Best Paper Award in WISE'2013
National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2012
Guanghua Scholarship, Peking University, 2012
Pacesetter of Outstanding Students, Peking University, 2012