Haopeng Zhang
Haopeng Zhang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where he directs the ALOHA (Advanced Language Processing and Human Analytics) Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, advised by Dr. Jiawei Zhang. He also holds dual M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and 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 focuses on NLP, LLM, and AI4science
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, especially focusing on
- NLP: Summarization, Generation, Low-Resource Languages
- Generative AI: LLMs, VLLMs, Multimodal Foundation Models
- AI4Science: Healthcare, Linguistics, Sensing, Nutrition
- Graph Mining: Graph4NLP
News
- 05.2025: Recent papers now available on arXiv: [Structurized Summarization], [Workflow Generation], [RAG Attack], and [Multimodal Summarization Survey].
- 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].
- 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.
- 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.
- 10.2023: two first-authored research papers are accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2023.
- 09.2023: serve as PC member for SDM 24.
- 09.2023: one first-authored research paper is accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2023.
- 06.2023: start my research internship at AWS AI lab.
- 06.2023: one first-authored research paper is accepted to LLM4AI workshop at KDD 23.
- 06.2023: serve as reviewer for EMNLP 2023, SDM 24 and PC for NewSumm workshop 2023.
- 05.2023: one first-authored research paper is accepted to ACL 2023 CODI.
- 05.2023: one first-authored research paper is accepted to Findings of ACL 2023.
- 04.2023: start my research internship at Megagon Lab.
- 03.2023: receive UC Davis GGCS Research Fellowship.
- 03.2023: serve as reviewer for ACL 23, IEEE TASLP, IEEE Transactions on Big Data.
- 02.2023: passed my QE exam.