Jieyu

Office: USC GCS #405A

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Jieyu Zhao 赵洁玉

Gabilan Assistant Professor

Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, USC

Jieyu Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science Department at University of Southern California. Prior to that, she was an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at University of Maryland, College Park, working with Prof. Hal Daumé III. Jieyu received her Ph.D. from Computer Science Department, UCLA, where she was advised by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang. Her research interest lies in fairness of ML/NLP models. Her paper got the EMNLP Best Long Paper Award (2017). She was one of the recipients of 2020 Microsoft PhD Fellowship and has been selected to participate in 2021 Rising Stars in EECS workshop. Her research has been covered by news media such as Wired, The Daily Mail and so on. She was invited by UN-WOMEN Beijing on a panel discussion about gender equality and social responsibility. Her CV is available here.

🐾 Research | 📜 Papers | 🍋‍🟩 Lab

I am broadly interested in research about how to get machines to understand and respond to human languages (natural language processing & machine learning). A few questions that drive my recent research are:

📢 Attention: If you are interested in doing research with my group, please first check our research here.

📰 Recent News

  • [Jun 11, 2025] I will give a talk at USC Viterbi Chat: Seattle. Happy chatting with you there!
  • [Jun 2025] Congrats to @Zhaotian Weng for getting the USC Viterbi Graduate Award.
  • [Apr 2025] Congrats to @Jiazhi Li for passing his PhD defense! Great job, Dr. Li!
  • [Mar 2025] Talk at Linguistics Department @ USC.
  • [Mar 2025] Starting from 2025 March, I set aside 30 mins every Friday to meet with anyone. Free free to sign up here if you would like to chat with me on any topics.
  • [Jan 2025] Guest lecture at Global AI Regulation Class. USC Law School.
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