Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor

Computer and Information Science

Office: Amy Gutmann Hall, 438B

Research Areas

  • Machine Learning and Inference Methods to facilitate Natural Language Understanding

Awards

2020: DARPA Information Science And Technology Advisory Panel

2017: The International Joint Conference on AI John McCarthy Award

2014: Fellow of the AAAS

2013: College of Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2012: Fellow of the ACL

2011: Fellow of the ACM

2011: Best Student Paper Award, Conference on Natural Language Learning

2010: Best Paper Award, Army Science Conference

2009: Fellow of the AAAI

2005: Xerox Award for Faculty Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Projects/Papers

BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive
DiverseAgentEntropy: Quantifying Black-Box LLM Uncertainty through Diverse Perspectives and Multi-Agent Interaction
Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations

Students

PhDs:

Sihao Chen

Xingyu Fu

Chaitanya Malaviya (co-advised Mark Yatskar)

Haoyu Wang

Siyi Liu

Yu Feng