Research Area
We actively encourage student-driven research across Natural Language Processing (NLP), Foundation Models, and Trustworthy Language Intelligence, bridging foundational advances with real-world applications and impact.
Natural Language Processing
Linguistic Intelligence: Linguistic Analysis, Language Representation, and Tokenization
Cross-lingual NLP: Machine Translation, Multilingual Modeling, and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning
Language Generation: Controllable Generation, Structured Text Generation, and Natural Language Generation
Neuro-Symbolic NLP: Knowledge Integration, Compositional Reasoning, and Symbolic Language Understanding
Foundation Models
Foundation Model Development: Data Collection, Preprocessing, Tokenization, Pretraining, Post-training, and Model Architecture
Evaluation & Ecosystem Model Evaluation, Benchmark Development, Safety & Fairness Assessment, and Open Leaderboards
Advanced Capabilities: Long-Context Modeling, Knowledge Editing, Code & Mathematical Reasoning, Multilingual & Multimodal Intelligence, and Agentic AI
Trustworthy Language Intelligence
Reliability: LLM Evaluation, Benchmark Reliability, LLM-as-a-Judge, and Robustness
Interpretability: Mechanistic Interpretability, Representation Analysis, and Model Behavior Understanding
Controllability: Parameter Region Identification, Capability Transplantation, and Model Editing
Safety: AI Safety, Red Teaming, Risk Assessment, and Safe Agentic Systems
Privacy: Privacy-Preserving Language Models, Secure Inference, and Data Protection