I am an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, Columbia University. I am also a co-founder of
Arklex.ai that centers its efforts on harnessing the power of AI Agents to empower and shape the future landscape of the workspace. Before that I was an Assistant Professor at UC Davis. I received my PhD at Language Technology Institute under School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University 2017, working with
Prof. Alan W Black and
Prof. Alexander I. Rudnicky. 2015 summer and 2016 summer, I interned with
Prof. David Suendermann-Oeft at ETS San Francisco Office on cloud based multimodal dialog systems. 2014 Fall, I interned with
Dan Bohus and
Eric Horvitz at Microsoft Research on situated multimodal dialogue systems. I was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 in Science in 2018. My team also won the 2018 Amazon Alexa Socialbot Competition. Our work on Persuasive Dialog Systems also won ACL 2019 best paper nomination.
Prior to CMU, I received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Linguistics under English Language Major from Zhejiang University in 2011. I worked with Prof. Xiaofei He and Prof. Deng Cai on Machine Learning and Computer Vision. I also worked with Prof. Yunhua Qu on Machine Translation.
