Hi, my name is Huihan Li. I’m a first year PhD student working on Natural Language Processing in University of Southern California. I’m part of the INK Lab, advised by Xiang Ren. I got my M.S.E in Computer Science from Princeton University, being part of the Princeton Natural Language Processing Group and advised by Danqi Chen. I studied Computer Science and Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College, working with Christine Bassem on human crowdsensing.

I am passionate about Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and everything about languages. In high school, I competed in International Linguistics Olympiad representing China.

Outside of research, I enjoy all kinds of sports, cooking/baking, and reading.

Research

My research focuses on training and evaluating language models using tasks that require mastering knowledge of the world. As of now, I am especially interested in robust natural language understanding, generation following constraints, and question answering.

News

• March 2022. I will be joining AI2 Mosaic Team as a summer research intern starting May 2023, working with Nouha Dziri!

Teaching

• Introduction to Programming Systems (COS217). Princeton University
• Data Structures (CS230). Wellesley College

Experience

• Ink Lab, USC. PhD Student. Sept. 2022 - Present
  • Research in Natural Language Processing
  • Advisor: Xiang Ren
• Apple. AI/ML Intern. May 2022 - Aug. 2022
  • Individual NLP research/engineering project, Siri Information Intelligence, Answers and Web Ranking Team
  • Mentors & Supervisors: Michael Tu, Nihkil Ramesh, Chris Dubois
• Princeton NLP Group. M.S.E Student. Sept. 2020 - May 2022
  • Research in Natural Language Processing
  • Advisor: Danqi Chen
• Wellesley College. Research Assistant. Sept. 2018 - July 2020
  • Research in Mobile Crowdsensing
  • Advisor: Christine Bassem
• Google. SWE Intern. May 2019 - Aug. 2019
  • Individual engineering project, Shopping Assistant, Natural Language Team
  • Supervisors: Jesse Welch, John Karro

Honors and Awards

• Siebel Scholars. Princeton University. Sept. 2021
• Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. Wellesley College. May 2020
• Durant Scholars magna cum laude. Wellesley College. May 2020

Service and leadership

• Student Representative on Board of Admission. Wellesley College. Oct. 2019 - May 2020