Lu Wang 王璐
Lu Wang is an Assistant Professor of Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University since 2015. She is also affiliated with Northeastern NLP group and NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, under supervision of Professor Claire Cardie in 2015.
Lu's research is focused on natural language processing, computational social science, and machine learning. More specifically, Lu works on algorithms for abstractive text summarization, language generation, argument mining, information extraction, and discourse analysis, as well as novel applications that apply such techniques to computational social science and other interdisciplinary subjects. Her work won outstanding short paper award at ACL 2017, and best paper nomination award at SIGDIAL 2012.
Lu's work has been mainly funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and several industry gifts (Tencent AI Lab, Toutiao AI Lab, NVIDIA GPU program, Amazon Web Service credits, Google Cloud Platform credits).
Announcements
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Summer 2019
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Spring 2019
I will teach CS6120/CS4120: Natural Language Processing.
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Fall 2018
Will talk about argument generation at Amazon Research Day.
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Summer 2018
Interviewed by Northeastern News This algorithm can predict who will win a debate, it might also help save democracy.
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Fall 2017
Interviewed and quoted in CNN article Offensive chat app responses highlight AI fails.
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Current
We are recruiting! For prospective Ph.D. students, post-docs, visitors, and undergrads who are interested in doing research with me, please read this page.
Academic Position
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Present 2015
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Education
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Ph.D. 2015
Ph.D., Computer Science
Cornell University
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B.Sc.2009
Intelligence Science and Technology
Peking University
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B.Econ.2009
Economics
Peking University
Grants
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2018–2021National Science Foundation"RI: Small: Collaborative Research: Computational Methods for Argument Mining: Extraction, Aggregation, and Generation", No. 1813341, PI with Claire Cardie (PI at Cornell).
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2017–2021Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity"Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language (MATERIAL)", subcontract to USC ISI.
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2019–2020The Social Science Research Council"Measuring the Effects of Peer Sharing on Fake and Polarized News Consumption", with PI Nick Beauchamp, co-PIs David Lazer, Donghee Jo, and Kenneth Joseph.
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2019–2020Northeastern University Tier 1"Augmented Product Design for Personalized Manufacturing", PI with Mohsen Moghaddam.
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2016–2018National Science Foundation"CRII: RI: Towards Abstractive Summarization of Meetings", No. 1566382, PI.
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2017–2018Northeastern University Tier 1"Inferring Argument Structure from Online and Live Conversations", PI with Nick Beauchamp and Michelle Borkin.
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2017–2018Gift from Tencent AI Lab
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2017–2018Gift from Toutiao AI Lab
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2016–2017Northeastern University Tier 1"Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks for Intelligent Visual Forecasting", PI with Yun Raymond Fu.