Nanyun (Violet) Peng
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Phone: (310) 206-7284
Fax: (310) 794-5057
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
- R^3: Reverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation with Commonsense Knowledge
- Tuhin Chakrabarty, Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan and Nanyun Peng. ACL 2020.
IN THE NEWS
- Deep Dive: ChatGPT, Part 1 | Daily Bruin, October 2023
- The Twitch Seinfeld Show Proves AI Shouldn’t Write Comedy | Wired, February 2023
- Is ChatGPT a Marvel or a Farce? We Interviewed the Chatbot to Find Out | Los Angeles Times, December 2022
- UC Researchers win grant to develop pandemic prediction technology | Daily Bruin, October 2022
EDUCATION
PhD, [2017] John Hopkins University - Computer Science
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- NSF CAREER Award, 2024
- Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2023
- Google Research Scholar Award, 2023
- NAACL Paper Award, 2022
- Keynote Talk at EMNLP, 2019