Hanjie Chen

HanjieChen

 Hanjie Chen

  Department of Computer Science

  Rice University

  Address: Duncan Hall 2081, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005

  Email: hanjie@rice.edu

             

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department @ Rice University. I am also affiliated with the Ken Kennedy Institute. I am broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, Interpretable Machine Learning, and Trustworthy AI. My research focuses on explaining and evaluating the properties, mechanisms, and capabilities of neural language models, enabling their alignment, interaction, and collaboration with humans, and enhancing their impact on real-world applications such as medicine, healthcare, sports, and more. By developing explainable AI techniques, I aim to make intelligent systems controllable by system developers, accessible to general users, applicable to various domains, and beneficial to society.

Prior to joining Rice, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Language and Speech Processing @ Johns Hopkins University from 2023 to 2024, hosted by Dr. Mark Dredze. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science in May 2023 at the University of Virginia, where my advisor was Dr. Yangfeng Ji.

Highlights

🎓 Received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, UVA, 2023

🎉 Received the John A. Stankovic Graduate Research Award, UVA, 2023

🎉 I was awarded the Carlos and Esther Farrar Fellowship, 2022 - 2023

👩‍🏫 Received the UVA CS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award and University-wide Graduate Teaching Awards Nominee (top 5% of graduate instructors) for the course, CS 6501/4501 Interpretable Machine Learning, I co-designed and instructed at UVA in Spring 2022

📝 I maintain a Reading List with interesting papers

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Research Experience

Professional Service

  • Organizer: BlackboxNLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2024
  • Senior Area Chair: ACL 2025
  • Area Chair: NAACL 2025, COLING 2025, EMNLP 2024, ACL ARR 2024 - Now, WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2022
  • Program Committee: ACL 2023, AAAI 2023, EMNLP 2021 - 2023, NAACL 2021, EACL 2023, CoNLL 2021 - 2022, NLPCC 2022, ACL DialDoc Workshop 2022, EMNLP BlackboxNLP Workshop 2021, 2023, NeurIPS Explainable AI Approaches for Debugging and Diagnosis Workshop 2021, Document-grounded Dialogue Workshop 2021, MASC-SLL 2020
  • Reviewer: TACL 2023 - 2025, ICLR 2024 - 2025, COLM 2024, NeurIPS 2023, EMNLP 2023, ACL ARR 2021 - 2024, ACL 2020 - 2021, EMNLP BlackboxNLP Workshop 2022, CoNLL 2019 - 2020, NLPCC 2019 - 2021
  • Diversity Representative for UVA Computer Science Graduate Student Group (CSGSG) Council, 2022

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Last update: 11/2024