Haopeng Zhang
I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the information and computer sciences (ICS) department of University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
I have 2 openings for Fall 2025 for self-motivated PhD students.
Biography
I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis under the supervision of Dr. Jiawei Zhang. I hold two M.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computational Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). My research interests include natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, graph mining and NLP for social good.
Research Interests:
- NLP: Summarization, Generation, Misinformation, Information Retrieval
- Generative AI: Large Language Models, Large Multi-modal Foundation Models
- NLP for social good: Indigenous culture, Climate change, Healthcare
- Graph Mining: Graph4NLP
News
- 04.2025: One research paper on [retrieval augmented generation] is accepted to IJCNN 2025.
- 02.2025: Thrilled to receive the UH Manoa Faculty Research Travel Fund! Looking forward to NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque.
- 02.2025: Excited to share that my research has been featured in [University of Hawaii News].
- 02.2025: One research paper [Wi-Chat: Large Language Model Powered Wi-Fi Sensing] is now available on arXiv.
- 01.2025: One research paper [A Structure-aware Generative Model for Biomedical Event Extraction] is accepted to DASFAA 2025.
- 01.2025: Excited to receive $7,500 computing credits from OpenAI’s Researcher Access Program.
- 01.2025: One research paper on [summmarization domain adaptation] is accepted to findings of NAACL 2025.
- 01.2025: One survey paper on [text summarization] is accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (IF:23.8).
- 11.2024: Excited to share that I will organize the 5th Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization (NewSumm) at EMNLP 2025, Suzhou.
- 11.2024: Honored to serve as an area chair for ACL 2025 and as a minitrack chair for AMCIS 2025.
- 10.2024: Excited to receive computing credit awards from Google Cloud.
- 09.2024: Honored to serve as a panelist for NSF.
- 09.2024: Glad to receive computing credits from NSF ACCESS Allocations program.
- 08.2024: Thrilled to attend NSF Innovation, Culture, and Creativity (ICC) workshop.
- 06.2024: My Ph.D. dissertation [Building Intelligent and Reliable Summarization Systems] and one survey paper on [text summarization] is available online.
- 06.2024: one research paper on [LLM knowledge distillation] is available on arXiv.
- 05.2024: 🎓 Successfully Completed My Ph.D. at UC Davis. Officially Dr. Zhang!
- 04.2024: 🎉 I will join the information and computer science (ICS) department of University of Hawaii at Mānoa this Augest. Aloha!
- 03.2024: one research paper is accepted to NAACL 2024.
- 02.2024: one first-authored research paper is accepted to LREC-COLING 2024.