Speakers

Diyi Yang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

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Diyi Yang is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, also affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group and Stanford Human Centered AI Institute. Her research focuses on human-centered natural language processing and human-AI interaction. She is a recipient of IEEE “AI 10 to Watch” (2020), Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2021), NSF CAREER Award (2022), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2023), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2024). Her work has received multiple paper awards or nominations at top NLP and HCI conferences.

Yu Su

Associate Professor, Ohio State University · Co-founder and CEO, NeoCognition

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Yu Su is Associate Professor at the Ohio State University and Co-founder and CEO at NeoCognition. He is known for his research and thought leadership on language agents, with a series of early work that helped shape the modern agent field. He is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and multiple paper awards from premier AI venues.

Wei-Peng Chen

Research Director, Fujitsu Research of America, Inc.

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Dr. Wei-Peng Chen is a Research Director at Fujitsu Research of America. His research interests include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Optimization, Software Engineering, Internet of Things, and Wireless Communications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He published 60+ journal or conference papers and was granted more than 130 US patents.

Furong Huang

Associate Professor, University of Maryland

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Vincent Sunn Chen

Research Fellow & Founding Team, Snorkel AI

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Vincent Sunn Chen is a Research Fellow on the founding team at Snorkel AI. His work centers on systems for high quality AI evaluation & data development with experts in the loop. He currently leads the Open Benchmarks Grants, a $3M commitment to funding benchmarks and infrastructure for frontier agents. Prior to Snorkel, Vincent was a researcher at the Stanford AI Lab, where he studied the foundations of data-centric AI systems.

Bertie Vidgen

AI Research, Mercor

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Liang Zheng

Professor, University of Sydney · Research Scientist, Canva

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Liang Zheng is a Professor at the University of Sydney and a Research Scientist with Canva. He's interested in representation learning in generative and perceptive AI. His representative works include REPA-E in diffusion training, random erasing data augmentation, and Market-1501 and part-based convolutional baselines in object re-identification. He received multiple fellowships from the Australian Research Council and multiple awards from the international community. He received his PhD and B.S. from Tsinghua University.