Email: jieyuz [at] usc [dot] edu
Office: USC PHE #332
Last Update: 08/22/2023
Gabilan Assitant 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 Wires, 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.
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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:
Investigating Ensemble Methods for Model Robustness Improvement of Text Classifiers
Jieyu Zhao, Xuezhi Wang, Yao Qin, Jilin Chen, Kai-Wei Chang. EMNLP Findings, 2022.
On Measures of Biases and Harms in NLP
Sunipa Dev, Emily Sheng, Jieyu Zhao, Aubrie Amstutz, Jiao Sun, Yu Hou, Mattie Sanseverino, Jiin Kim, Akihiro Nishi, Nanyun Peng, and Kai-Wei Chang. AACL, 2022.
Jieyu Zhao, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, and Kai-Wei Chang. ACL Findings, 2021.
Chong Zhang, Jieyu Zhao, Huan Zhang, Kai-Wei Chang, and Cho-Jui Hsieh. NAACL 2021.
Jieyu Zhao and Kai-Wei Chang. EMNLP 2020.
Jieyu Zhao, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Saghar Hosseini, Kai-Wei Chang, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah.
Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL 2020.
Shengyu Jia*, Tao Meng*, Jieyu Zhao, Kai-Wei Chang.
Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL 2020.
Yichao Zhou, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Jieyu Zhao, Kai-Wei Chang, Wei Wang
Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL 2020.
Pei Zhou, Weijia Shi, Jieyu Zhao, Kuan-Hao Huang, Muhao Chen, Ryan Cotterell, Kai-Wei Chang.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2019.
Tianlu Wang, Jieyu Zhao, Mark Yatskar, Kai-Wei Chang, Vicente Ordonez.
International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2019.
Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Ryan Cotterell, Vicente Ordonez, Kai-Wei Chang.
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. NAACL 2019.
Jieyu Zhao, Yichao Zhou, Zeyu Li, Wei Wang, Kai-Wei Chang
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2018.
Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, Kai-Wei Chang.
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. NAACL 2018.
Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, Kai-Wei Chang.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2017. (Best Long Paper Award)
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