News

• November 23, 2025 I gave a keynote talk at Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 2025 Video recording. Many thanks to the conference chair Xin (David) Ding, session host David Dobrzykowski, and the audience for an engaging session.
• 🏫 October 21-22, 2025 I visited MBZUAI and NYU-Abu Dhabi to given invited talks.
• 🔥 September 10, 2025 Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) Agent Orchestrator along with multiple Adobe Agents powered by it are now generally available! (Press release).
• 🏆 Feburary 27, 2025 Our paper “Evaluation and Incident Prevention in an Enterprise AI Assistant” won the DSRI AI Incidents and Best Practices Paper Award at IAAI’2025！(Twitter Post)
• Feburary 6, 2025 Honored to share that I’ve been appointed to the Advisors Board at University of Michigan - School of Information (Twitter post)
• 🏆 January 24, 2025 Our paper MuRAR: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Retrieval and Answer Refinement Framework for Multimodal Question Answering won the Best Demo Paper Award at COLING’2025！(Twitter Post）
• January 20, 2025 Multiple paper at COLING’2025 this week! link
• 🏆 November 14, 2024 Our paper Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP’2024! (Twitter Post)
• October 2024 Multiple paper acceptance at EMNLP’2024! link
• 🔥 June 6, 2024 AI Assistant in Adobe Experience Platform officially GAed today! (Twitter Post)
• March 26, 2024 The project I led at AI Assistant in Adobe Experience Platform got announced on Adobe Summit main stage!(Twitter Post)
• January 20, 2024 I joined the Advisory Board for the Professional MS degree in Computational Linguistics, Analytics, Search and Informatics (CLASIC) at the University of Colorado Boulder
• November 30, 2023 My latest book “Natural Language Interface to Databases” co-authored with the late Prof. Drago Radev and Prof. Davood Rafiei is now published by Springer Nature(Twitter Post). Available on Springer Nature, Amazon and Barns & Noble.
• October 23, 2023 I joined Adobe as Director of Machine Learning for the Adobe Experience Platform team (LinkedIn Post)
• October 2023 Multiple paper acceptance at EMNLP’2023! link
• October 2023 We will be hosting Data Science with Human-in-the-Loop Workshop at NAACL’2024!
• August 2023 Updated tutorial on Meaning Representation at IJCAI. link
• June 2023 First paper about my work at Apple “Growing and Serving Large Open-domain Knowledge Graphs” at SIGMOD’2023 link
• June 2023 Gave talks about my newer work from Apple “Building, Growing and Serving Large Knowledge Graphs with Human-in-the-Loop”, at Tsinghua University and HILDA Workshop slides
• Apr. 2023 Upcoming tutorial: “Meaning Representations for Natural Languages: Design, Models and Applications” at IJCAI’2023
• Jan. 2023 Elected to be a member of NAACL Executive Board (2023-2024). Looking forward to working with the NAACL community to bridge academic and industry research, promote interdisciplinary work, and support the growth of our community!
• Oct. 2023 Honored to co-organizing and co-chairing the AI session for the First U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium (link)
• July 2022 Thrilled to announce the first release of Label Sleuth, a new open-source human-in-the-loop annotation system for text classification (Announcement)
• Apr. 29, 2022 We just released Universal Proposition Bank 2.0 (Announcement).
• Mar. 25, 2022 I will be moderating NAACL’22 Careers in NLP Panel. Most details coming soon.
• Feb. 14, 2022 I joined Apple as the Head of Machine Learning of Knowledge Platform team (LinkedIn Post)
• Feb. 11, 2022 My last day at IBM Research (LinkedIn post)
• Upcoming Tutorials: “Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing” at AAAI’2022 (Slides and Recording) and WWW’2022 (Links); “Meaning Representations for Natural Languages: Design, Models and Applications” at EMNLP’2022
• Dec. 2021 Two projects with significant contributions from my team got recognized by prestigious IBM Research accomplishments: O-level: Research contributions to Watson NLP Stack; A-level: Research contributions to Watson OneConversion
• Nov. 18, 2021 Interview on Four Key Tools for Robust Enterprise NLP with Sam Charrington for the TWIML podcast: recording
• Nov. 13, 2021 Keynote talk on how to tame the Wild West of NLP at NLP4MusA
• Nov. 10, 2021 Blog on Pattern Induction for extracting entities such as financial metrics based on syntactic patterns with just two examples.