Awards

Research Awards

• AAAI Senior Memeber, 2023

• Google Research Scholar Award, 2021

• Sloan Research Fellowship, 2021

• NSF Research Initiation Initiative (CRII), 2016

• Okawa Research Grant Award, 2018

• Amazon Research Award, 2019

• Facebook Research Award, 2019

• C.L and Jane W. S. Liu Award, University of Illinois, 2013

• Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Award, 2011

Student Awards

• Tanmay won Bloomberg Fellowship and Amazon Fellowship, 2024

• Harold Li won Google PhD Fellowship, 2023

• Pan Lu won Qualcomm Innovation PhD Fellowship and UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2023

• Wade Yin won the Amazon Research Fellowship, 2022

• Harold Li and Tao Meng won the Amazon Research Fellowship, 2021

• Jieyu Zhao won the Microsoft PhD Fellowship, 2020: For her research on examining the various potential stereotypes that lie in machine learning models and developing computational approaches that enhance fairness in natural language processing applications.

• Wasi Ahamd won the William L Ballard Jr Endowed Graduate Fellowship, 2017: For demonstrating academic excellence in Engineering at University of Virginia

Paper Awards

• Outstanding Paper Award, ACL 2023 : The Tail Wagging the Dog: Dataset Construction Biases of Social Bias Benchmarks, Nikil Roashan Selvam, Sunipa Dev, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, and Kai-Wei Chang

• Area Chair’s Award, ACL 2023 : ParaAMR: A Large-Scale Syntactically Diverse Paraphrase Dataset by AMR Back-Translation, Kuan-Hao Huang, Varun Iyer, I.-Hung Hsu, Anoop Kumar, Kai-Wei Chang, and Aram Galstyan

• Best Paper Award, ICLR workshop on Reliable and Trustworthy Large Scale Machine Learning, 2023. : CleanCLIP: Mitigating Data Poisoning Attacks in Multimodal Contrastive Learning, Hritik Bansal, Nishad Singhi, Yu Yang, Fan Yin, Aditya Grover, and Kai-Wei Chang

• Best Paper Finalist, CVPR 2022 : Grounded Language-Image Pre-training, Liunian Harold Li, Pengchuan Zhang, Haotian Zhang, Jianwei Yang, Chunyuan Li, Yiwu Zhong, Lijuan Wang, Lu Yuan, Lei Zhang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kai-Wei Chang, and Jianfeng Gao

• Best Long Paper Award, EMNLP 2017 : Men Also Like Shopping: Reducing Gender Bias Amplification using Corpus-level Constraints, Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, and Kai-Wei Chang

• Best Paper Award, KDD 2010 : Large Linear Classification When Data Cannot Fit In Memory, Hsiang-Fu Yu, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang, and Chih-Jen Lin

• Best Paper Award, ACL RepL4NLP Workshop 2017 : Beyond Bilingual: Multi-senseWord Embeddings using Multilingual Context

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