2025.11 Thanksgiving Party
2025.9 Group Outing @ Six Flags, San Antonio, TX
2025.7 SURF undergrads present research conducted at the Chili Lab
2025.7 ICML 2025, Vancouver, Canada
2025.5 NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2025.2 Houston Museum of Natural Science
2024.11 EMNLP 2024, Miami
2024.10 Group Outing, Memorial Park
2024.9 Group Lunch, Rice Village
Principal Investigator
News 🗞
- [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
- Zhengchen Li (Fall 2025 - Now)
Undergraduate Students
- Aanya Kumar (Fall 2025 - Now)
- Shanzita Siddiqua (Summer 2025 - Now, SURF Program)
- 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, MS, Summer 2025 - Now)
Student Collaborators
- Pengda Wang (Rice, PhD, Fall 2023 - Now)
Alumni
Postdoc / PhD Alumni
- Yang Sui (Rice, Postdoc, Oct. 2024 - Sept. 2025) --> Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
Other Alumni
- Victoria Nian (Rice, Undergraduate, Spring 2025 - Summer 2025)
- Max Irey (Rice, Undergraduate, Summer 2025, SURF Program)
- Eric Chien (Rice, MS, Spring 2025 - Summer 2025)
- Qiyuan Yang (Rice, MS, Fall 2024 - Summer 2025)
- Marcos Miranda (Rice, MS, Summer 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)
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the sponsors for supporting our research.🩷
