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:

• Natural Language Processing
  • Text Summarization & Generation
  • Misinformation & Information Retrieval
• Generative AI
  • Large Language Models
  • Large Multi-modal Foundation Models
• NLP for social good
  • Indigenous culture
  • Climate change
• Graph Mining
  • Graph4NLP

News

• 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: one research paper on [summmarization domain adaptation] is available on arXiv.
• 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.