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May 2024 We won the first place :trophy: at BioLaySumm competition over 53 teams!
Jun 2024 ๐ŸŽ‰ UIUC_BioNLP at BioLaySumm is accepted by the 23th BioNLP Workshop co-located with ACL 2024!
Jun 2024 ๐ŸŽ‰ Beyond Binary Gender Labels is accepted by the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing co-located with ACL 2024!
Jul 2024 :sparkles: Received Researcher Access Award from OpenAI!
Aug 2024 ๐ŸŽ‰ SciPrompt is accepted by EMNLP 2024 Main conference! See you in Miami! :beach_umbrella:
Apr 2025 Passed the PhD Qualifying Exam! Officially become a PhD candidate!
Aug 2025 One paper I co-authored is accepted by EMNLP 2025 Findings! ๐ŸŽ‰
Sep 2025 I was named in the Universityโ€™s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2025! ๐Ÿ…
Mar 2026 PlainQAFact is accepted by Journal of Biomedical Informatics! Try our automatic factuality metric and access our plain language summarization dataset through Github.
Aug 2026 PlainQAFact is featured by ACCESS!