2026.03 Rice Workshop on Large Language Models
2026.03 Chili Lab with their grand advisor—Dr. Yangfeng Ji 🥳
2026.02 Group Outing, Northshore Park
2025.9 Group Outing @ Six Flags, San Antonio, TX
2025.7 SURF undergrads present research conducted at the Chili Lab
2025.2 Houston Museum of Natural Science
2024.9 Group Lunch, Rice Village
Principal Investigator
News 🗞
- [08/2026] Congratulations to Zhouxiang Fang on his paper being accepted at EMNLP 2026 🎉
- [08/2026] Congratulations to Morris Zhang and Lingxi Zhang on their paper being accepted at EMNLP 2026 🎉
- [07/2026] Congratulations to Ruidi Chang on her paper being accepted at COLM 2026 🎉
- [04/2026] Congratulations to Lingxi Zhang on her paper being accepted at ICML 2026 🎉
- [04/2026] Congratulations to Zejia You on his paper being accepted at ICML 2026 🎉
- [01/2026] Congratulations to Haotian Xia on his paper being accepted at ICLR 2026 🎉
- [01/2026] Congratulations to Pengda Wang on his paper being accepted at EACL 2026 🎉
- [01/2026] Congratulations to Chunyuan Deng on his paper being accepted at TMLR 🎉
- [11/2025] Congratulations to Chunyuan Deng for receiving the Ken Kennedy Institute Graduate Fellowship 2025-2026 🎉
- [10/2025] Congratulations to Chunyuan Deng for receiving the NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award 🎉
- [09/2025] Congratulations to Chunyuan Deng on his paper being accepted at NeurIPS 2025 🎉
- [07/2025] Congratulations to Yang Sui on his paper being accepted at TMLR 🎉
- [05/2025] Congratulations to Chunyuan Deng on his paper being accepted at ICML 2025 🎉
- [05/2025] Congratulations to Feng Luo on her paper being accepted at the Findings of ACL 2025 🎉
- [01/2025] Congratulations to Ruidi Chang on her paper being accepted at the Findings of NAACL 2025 🎉
- [01/2025] Congratulations to Haotian Xia on his paper being accepted at ICLR 2025 🎉
Postdoc / PhD Students
Master's Students
Undergraduate Students
- Sam Liu (Fall 2026 - Now)
- Shanzita Siddiqua (Summer 2025, SURF Program - Now)
Visiting Students
- Zejia You (Tufts University, MS, Summer 2025 - Now)
Student Collaborators
- Pengda Wang (Rice, PhD, Fall 2023 - Now)
Alumni
Former Members
- Ruidi Chang (Rice, graduate student, Fall 2024 - Summer 2026)
- Ernest Gao (University of Chicago, graduate student, visiting student at Rice, Summer 2026)
- Yihan Guo (Rice, graduate student, Summer 2026)
- Zhengchen Li (Rice, graduate student, Fall 2025 - Summer 2026)
- Justin Nguyen (Rice, Summer 2026, undergraduate, SURF Program)
- Lorenzo Rodriguez (Rice, Summer 2026, undergraduate, SURF Program)
- Po-Hsiang Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst, graduate student, visiting student at Rice, Summer 2025 - Spring 2026)
- Aanya Kumar (Rice, undergraduate, Fall 2025)
- Yang Sui (Rice, Postdoc, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025, w/ Dr. Xia Hu) --> Microsoft AI
- Max Irey (Rice, Undergraduate, Summer 2025, SURF Program)
- Eric Chien (Rice, graduate student, Spring 2025 - Summer 2025)
- Qiyuan Yang (Rice, graduate student, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025)
- Marcos Miranda (Rice, graduate student, Summer 2025)
- Kristine Wong (Rice, undergraduate, Summer 2025, SURF Program)
- Nursultan Asilbekov (Rice, undergraduate, Summer 2025, SURF Program)
- Haotian Xia (UCI, graduate student, visiting student at Rice, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025) --> CS PhD at Rice
- Xiaohan Yang (Rice, undergraduate, Spring 2025)
- Andrew Sun (Rice, undergraduate, Spring 2025)
- Victoria Nian (Rice, undergraduate, Spring 2025)
- Feng Luo (Rice, graduate student, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025)
- Xiaowei Xu (Rice, graduate student, Fall 2024)
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the sponsors for supporting our research.🩷
