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 multiple openings for self-motivated PhD students starting in Fall 2025, Spring 2026, and Fall 2026.
Biography
Dr. Haopeng Zhang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, under the supervision of Dr. Jiawei Zhang. He holds two M.S. degrees 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). His research interests include natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, and NLP for science.
Research Interests:
- NLP: Summarization, generation, low-resource languages
- Generative AI: LLMs, vision-language models, multimodal foundation models
- NLP4Science: Cognitive science, healthcare
- Graph Mining: Graph4NLP
News
- 04.2025: Happy to join the [University of Hawaii Cancer Center (UHCC)] as an Affiliate Member.
- 04.2025: One research paper on [Multimodal Reasoning] has been accepted to the Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning workshop at CVPR 2025.
- 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.