We gratefully acknowledge the funding agencies that support our research.

Current Funding

NOVA: A Neuro-Symbolic Vision-Language Framework for Multimodal Human-Machine Interactions

PI
2023-2025

SLES: Verifying and Enforcing Safety Constraints in AI-based Sequential Generation

Co-PI
2023-2026

MCS: Discovering Common Sense from Video, Images, Text and Knowledge Bases

PI of sub-award from USC
2019-2024

MIRACLE: Multimodal InteRActive Conceptual LEarning

Co-PI, sub-award fro UIUC
2013-2025

PYLON: An Integrated Semantic Framework for Probabilistic Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning

Co-PI,
2023-2027

PIPP Phase 1: An end-to-end pandemic early warning system by harnessing open-source intelligence

Senior Personale
2022-2023

Online News Trend-Watching via Linguistic Analysis

Solo-PI (gift)
2018-2019, 2019-2020

Customizing Robust and Controllable Text Processing Models

Solo-PI
2022-2023

Medical Vision-Language Foundation Models for Clinical Report Analysis

PI
2023

DocBART: Contextualized Document Understanding

PI
2023

Expired Funding

Learning to Screen: Accelerating Training and Inference for Large NLP Models

Co-PI of the gift grant
2019-2020

Learning Robust Contextual Language Encoders at Scale

Solo-PI
2020-2021

CICI: RDP: Security and Privacy Policy Enforcement for Research Data Protection

PI of sub-award from U. Virginia
2019-2022

CRII: RI: Learning Structured Prediction Models with Auxiliary Supervision

Solo-PI
2016-2019

UGB: Discerning Group Biases in Online Communities via Linguistic Analysis

PI of sub-award from USC
2018-2019

Reducing Implicit Societal Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems

Solo-PI of the gift grant
2018

EAGER: AI-DCL: Governing Bias in AI System with Humans in the Decision Loop

PI
2019-2021