Dr. Jiaying Wu presented the recent research on using LLMs for social simulations at the iGyro meeting.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Hengchang Hu has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled, “Going Beyond ID-Based Recommender Systems by Exploiting External Knowledge,” under the supervision of A/P Min-Yen Kan.

Congratulations to Yisong Miao and his collaborators for winning the Area Chair Award at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) for their paper, “Discursive Socratic Questioning: Evaluating the Faithfulness of Language Models’ Understanding of Discourse Relations.”

Congratulations to Dr. Taha Aksu on successfully defending his PhD thesis titled, “Task-Oriented Dialogue Understanding and Evaluation using Minimal Data.”