Tuan M. Lai
PhD Candidate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

About Me

[News] I successfully defended my PhD thesis in April 2023.


I am a final-year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at UIUC, advised by Prof. Heng Ji. I received my Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Purdue University in 2020. I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science from KAIST in 2017. My research interest lies in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, focusing on Information Extraction.

Email : laituan245 [at] gmail [dot] com

Recent News

  • May 2023. One research paper was accepted to the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
  • Jan 2023. One research paper was accepted by EACL 2023. We have achieved a new SOTA result on WoW.
  • October 2022. Our paper on molecule captioning and generation got accepted to EMNLP 2022.
  • March/April 2022. Two demo papers were accepted by ACL 2022 and NAACL 2022.
  • Feb 2022. One research paper was accepted by Findings of ACL 2022.
  • Jan 2022. One research paper was accepted by ICASSP 2022.
  • August 2021. One research paper was accepted by Findings of EMNLP 2021.
  • May 2021. One research paper was accepted by ACL 2021.
  • March 2021. One research paper and one demo paper were accepted by NAACL 2021.
  • Sep 2020. Two research papers were accepted by COLING 2020.
  • Jan 2020. One research paper was accepted by ICASSP 2020.
  • Aug 2019. One research paper was accepted by EMNLP 2019.

Current and Past Affiliations


2020 - Present

2018 - 2020

2013 - 2017

2022 Summer

Summer 2021

2017 - 2020

Summers 2016, 2017

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