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2025.9 Group Outing @ Six Flags, San Antonio, TX
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2025.7 SURF undergrads present research conducted at the Chili Lab
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2025.7 ICML 2025, Vancouver, Canada
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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
Principal Investigator
News 🗞
- [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
- Aanya Kumar (Fall 2025 - Now)
- Max Irey (Summer 2025 - Now, SURF Program)
- Shanzita Siddiqua (Summer 2025 - Now, SURF Program)
- Victoria Nian (Summer 2025 - Now)
- Xiaohan Yang (Spring 2025 - Now)
- Andrew Sun (Spring 2025 - Now)
Visiting Students
- Zejia You (Tufts University, MS, Summer 2025 - Now)
- Po-Hsiang Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Undergrad, Summer 2025 - Now)
Student Collaborators
- Pengda Wang (Rice, PhD, Fall 2023 - Now)
Alumni
- Eric Chien (Rice, MS, Spring 2025)
- Qiyuan Yang (Rice, MS, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025)
- Marcos Miranda (Rice, MS, Summer 2025)
- Yang Sui (Rice, Postdoc, Oct. 2024 - Sept. 2025)
- Kristine Wong (Rice, Undergraduate, Summer 2025, SURF Program)
- Nursultan Asilbekov (Rice, Undergraduate, Summer 2025, SURF Program, advised by Ruidi Chang)
- 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)