Project Collaborator
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Biography
Violet Peng is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles, and an Amazon Scholar at the Amazon AGI org. She directs the PLUSLAB (Peng's Language Understanding and Synthesis Lab) at UCLA, with the vision to develop robust Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to lower communication barriers and make AI agents true companions for humans. Her work has been recognized with multiple paper awards, including an Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2022, three Outstanding Paper Awards at EMNLP 2024, Oral Papers at NeurIPS 2022 and ICML 2023, as well as Best Paper Awards at AI/NLP workshops. She was featured in the IJCAI 2022 Early Career Spotlight. Her research has received support from the NSF CAREER Award, NIH R01, DARPA, IARPA grants, and multiple industrial research awards. She got her PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing.
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