Hi~ I am a fifth-year PhD student at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Dr. Rui Zhang. Previously I have done my research internships in Microsoft Research and Amazon.

Research Interests

My research interests broadly lie in investigating novel techniques for stronger and data-efficient Natural Language Processing, with a focus on:

• Strategy and Prompt Optimization for Better Reasoning (ICLR ‘25)
• Data and Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning (EMNLP ‘23)
• Zero/Few Shot Learning (ACL 2022. ACL Findings ‘24)

News

[2025.6] Received 2024-25 Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Student Persistence Scholarship. Thanks to my amazing advisor Rui Zhang and all my collaborators in my journey!

[2025.5] One co-authored paper got accepted at Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ ACL 2025.

[2025.5] Our prompt optimization library GreaTerPrompt got accepted at ACL 2025 Demo! Congratulations to Wenliang and all co-authors! Check this library out!

[2025.4] One co-authored paper on LLM usage for user intent taxonomies is accepted at ACM Transactions on the Web 2025.

[2025.3] Two patents from my Microsoft Internship got published.

[2025.1] One paper on Prompt Optimization is accepted at ICLR 2025. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.7] One co-authored paper on LLM error detection is accepted at COLM 2024. Thanks to Ryo and all the collaborators!

[2024.5] One paper from my Microsoft Research Internship on Joint Dialogue Segmentation and State Tracking is accepted at ACL Findings 2024. Thanks to my mentors Tara Safavi, Longqi Yang, and Jennifer Neville, and all the coauthors!

[2023.11] I finished my comprehensive exam!

[2023.10] Got one paper on Low Resource Sequence Labeling accepted at EMNLP 2023! Thanks everyone!

[2023.9] One co-authored paper on Network Protocol Analysis with NLP is accepted at USENIX Security ‘24. Thanks to Ishtiaq and all the coauthors!

[2023.8] Spent a wonderful summer internship at Microsoft Research! All thanks go to my amazing mentors Tara Safavi, Longqi Yang, and Jennifer Neville.

[2022.6] Started my research internship at Amazon Research.

[2022.6] I have been awarded Dr. Tse-Yun Feng Outstanding Graduate Student Award by PSU CSE. Thank you so much everyone!

[2022.5] Presented our paper @ ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland.

[2022.2] One paper on Few shot NER is accepted at ACL 2022 Main Conference. Thanks to Rui and other coauthors!

[2022.1] One paper on AF Detection from PPG Signals is accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp) 2022. Thanks to all the coauthors!

[2021.5] One paper on Geo-Spatial Embedding for Housing Pricing is accepted at Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Thanks to all the coauthors!