Zhiyu Zoey Chen

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Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

Email: zhiyu.chen2 [at] utdallas [dot] edu

I'm Zhiyu (Zoey) Chen, and I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Prof. William Wang and Prof. Xifeng Yan. I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof. Fei Fang.

I'm broadly interested in natural language processing and deep learning.

Language Agents: Designing LLM-powered agents and various applications.

NLP for Social Good: Designing NLP techniques for interdisciplinary research, including social science and mental health.

Knowledge-Grounded NLP: Building intelligent and reliable natural language interface grounded on world knowledge to effectively address user requests, which covers the areas of dialogue and interaction systems, question answering, natural language generation, and knowledge reasoning.