Welcome!

The PLUS lab is a collection of researchers within the Natural Language Processing group at UCLA, working on creative language generation, event-centric reasoning, and multi-modal (V&L) modeling.

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Faculty

Nanyun (Violet) Peng

PI

Postdoc Researchers

Yiwei Wang

Constrained Decoding, Knowledge Graphs

Jia-Chen Gu

Generation, Dialogue Systems

PhD Researchers

Sidi Lu

Creative Generation

Zi-Yi Dou

Generation, Multimodality

Yufei Tian

Creative Generation

Tanmay Parekh

Multilinguality

Po-Nien Kung

Instruction Tuning

Lucas Bandarkar

Multilingual NLP

Mohsen Fayyaz

Model Interpretability

Xueqing Wu

Multimodality, Embodied AI

Haoyi Qiu

Trustworthy NLP

Yu (Bryan) Zhou

Dialectal NLP

Haikang Deng

Controllable Text Generation

Yunzhi Yao

Knowledge Mechanism, Reasoning

Master and Undergrad Researchers

Wenbo Hu

Automatic Evaluation, Multimodality

Rohan Wadhawan

Multimodality, RLHF

Songyan (Silas) Zhao

Creative Generation

Bingxuan Li

Generation, Multimodality

Meith Navlakha

Multimodality

Zihan Xue

Events

Jeffrey Kwan


Tang Mohan


Jeffrey Kwan


Student Collaborators

Fabrice Harel-Canada

Data Generation, Automatic Evaluation

Jiao Sun

Fairness in NLP, Event Extraction

Alexander Spangher

Computational Journalism

Tuhin Chakrabarty

Creative Generation

PhD Alumni

Emily Sheng

Fairness in NLP. Now at Microsoft Research.

Rujun (RJ) Han

Information Extraction, Question Answering, Events. Now at Amazon AWS AI

Sarik Ghazarian

Automatic Evaluation Metrics. Now at Amazon

I-Hung Hsu

Information Extraction, Now at Google

Te-Lin Wu

Machine Common Sense, Multimodality, Now at Character AI

Chujie Zheng

Trustworthy NLP (Visiting PhD student from Tsinghua University)

Other Alumni

Nuan Wen

Machine Common Sense, Event Duration, now PhD at USC

Yu (Hope) Hou

Machine Common Sense, now PhD at UMD

Shikhar Singh

Machine Common Sense, Event Duration

Kung-Hsiang (Steeve) Huang

Information Extraction, now PhD at UIUC

Samar Haider

USC 2020 master's student, now PhD at UPenn

Xiangci Li

USC 2020 master's student, now PhD at UT Dallas

Mu Yang

USC 2020 master's student, now PhD at TAMU

Shuowei (Shawn) Jin

2019 Summer Intern, now PhD at UMich

Zizhuang (Prince) Wang

2019 Summer Intern, Undergrad at UCSB

Shufan Wang

2019 Summer Intern, PhD at UMass Amherst

Sourav Pati

USC 2019 master's student, now at Amazon

Bashar Alhafni

USC 2019 master's student, now PhD at NYU

Haining Feng

USC 2019 master's student, now at Google

Mengyue Liang

USC 2019 master's student, now at Outreach

Xinyu Wang

2018 Summer Intern, now Master at CMU

Xiaolei Huang

2018 Summer Intern, PhD at CU-Boulder

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant

2018 Summer Intern, now PhD at University of Edinburgh

James Mullenbach

2018 Summer Intern, now at ASAPP

Li Dong

USC 2018 master's student, now at Outreach

Ashima Suvarna

Discourse Understanding, now PhD at UCLA

Rebacca Pattichis

Code-Switching