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2025.5 NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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2025.2 Houston Museum of Natural Science

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2025.2 Houston Museum of Natural Science

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2024.11 EMNLP 2024, Miami

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2024.10 Group Outing, Memorial Park

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2024.9 Group Lunch, Rice Village

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Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor

July 2024 - Now

News 🗞

[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 🎉
[03/2025] New preprint led by Yang Sui, Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models, arXiv
[02/2025] New preprint led by Feng Luo, Rethinking Diverse Human Preference Learning through Principal Component Analysis, arXiv
[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 🎉
[10/2024] New preprint led by Chunyuan Deng, Language Models are Symbolic Learners in Arithmetic, arXiv
[10/2024] New preprint led by Qiyuan Yang and Pengda Wang, From Babbling to Fluency: Evaluating the Evolution of Language Models in Terms of Human Language Acquisition, arXiv
[10/2024] New preprint led by Haotian Xia, SPORTU: A Comprehensive Sports Understanding Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models, arXiv

Postdoc / PhD Students

Postdoc (w/ Xia Hu)

Oct. 2024 - Now

PhD Student

Fall 2024 - Now

PhD Student

Fall 2024 - Now

PhD Student

Fall 2025 - Now

PhD Student

Fall 2025 - Now

Po-Hsiang Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Undergrad, Summer 2025 - Now)

Haotian Xia (UCI, MS, visiting student at Rice, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025) ---> CS PhD at Rice
Feng Luo (Rice, MS, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025) ---> CS PhD at Rice
Xiaowei Xu (Rice, MS, Fall 2024)