News

• October 12, 2023: Alex Mallen and Akari Asai's paper won the Best Video Award at ACL 2023.
• July 31, 2023: Jiacheng (Gary) Liu received the 2023-24 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
• 06/26/2023: Gabriel Ilharco was selected as a 2023 JP Morgan Chase PhD Fellow.
• 06/19/2023: Alex Mallen received the UW Allen School Senior Award.
• January 4, 2023: Hanna Hajishirzi received UIUC Alumni Achievement Award. [Link]
• 02/13/2023: Congratulations to Dr. David Wadden for successfully defending his Ph.D.
• 10/31/2022: Akari Asai and Sewon Min were selected at EECS Rising Star.
• 09/30/2022: Daniel Kim received NSF Graduate Fellowship.
• August 8, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. James Ferguson for successfully defending his Ph.D.
• June 25, 2022: Gabriel Ilharco's paper was a Best Paper finalist at CVPR 2022.
• May 6, 2022: Akari Asai won 2022-2024 IBM PhD Fellowship.
• March 3, 2022: Sewon Min won 2022-2023 JP Morgan Ph.D. Fellowship.
• June 28, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Aida Amini for successfully defending her Ph.D.
• June 10, 2021: Dave Wadden received Outstanding Study Design at ICWSM, 2021.
• May 20, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Colin Lockard for successfully defending his Ph.D.
• May 1, 2021: Hanna Hajishirzi has received NSF CAREER award.
• March 9, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Sachin Mehta for successfully defending his Ph.D.
• October 8, 2020: Hanna Hajishirzi was named as one of 10 recepients of Intel Rising Star Faculty Award. [Link]
• June 1, 2020: Aida Amini received best paper honorable mention for her paper at AKBC 2021.
• April 9, 2020: Sachin Mehta and Hanna Hajishirzi received a Facebook Research Toward On-Device AI.
• February 12, 2020: Hannaneh Hajishirzi named 2020 Sloan Research Fellow. [Link]
• November 5, 2019: Gabriel Ilharco received Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award for Research Inspired by Human Language Learning and Processing at CoNLL 2019. This work was done while in the Google AI Residency program.
• October 3, 2019: Hannaneh Hajishirzi is a program co-chair AKBC, 2020. [Link]
• September 1, 2019: Bhargavi Paranjape won 2019-2020 David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering. [Link]
• September 1, 2019: Akari Asai won 2019-2021 The Nakajima Foundation Fellowship.
• May 30, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Yi Luan for receiving the ECE Yang Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student. [Link]
• May 24, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Yi Luan for successfully defending her Ph.D.
• April 30, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Rik Koncel-Kedziorski for successfully defending his Ph.D.
• January 15, 2019: Congratulations to Minjoon Seo for receiving the Facebook Fellowship. [Link]
• March 15, 2019: Hannaneh Hajishirzi received Allen Distinguished Investigator Award for the work on Representation and Reasoning in NLP.
• September 1, 2018: Sewon Min won 2018-2019 Wissner-Slivka Endowed Fellowship. [Link]
• March 26, 2018: Hannaneh Hajishirzi received Google research faculty award for real-time open-domain question answering [Link]
• March 25, 2018: Hannaneh Hajishirzi received Samsung GRO award for our work on knowledge-aware question answering.
• June 3, 2017: Congratulations to Rik Koncel-Kedziorski for receiving Excellence in Linguistics Research Graduate. [Link]
• April 27, 2017: Hannaneh Hajishirzi received Amazon Research Faculty award for our work on answering questions about product reviews. [Link]
• February 28, 2017: Hannaneh Hajishirzi recieved Bloomberg Data Science award for multi-modal question answering.
• April 7, 2015: Hannaneh Hajishirzi received Google research faculty award for learning to solve math word problems. [Link]
• December 9, 2014: Hannaneh Hajishirzi received Allen Distinguished Investigator Award for the work on Diagram Understanding. [Link]