Office: USC GCS #405A
Email: jieyuz [at] usc [dot] edu
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.
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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:
InterIntent: Investigating Social Intelligence of LLMs via Intention Understanding in an Interactive Game Context
Ziyi Liu, Abhishek Anand, Pei Zhou, Jen-tse Huang, Jieyu Zhao. EMNLP 2024.
Self-Contradictory Reasoning Evaluation and Detection
Ziyi Liu, Soumya Sanyal, Isabelle Lee, Yongkang Du, Rahul Gupta, Yang Liu, Jieyu Zhao. EMNLP 2024 Findings.
Images Speak Louder than Words: Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Vision-Language Model from a Causal Mediation Perspective
Zhaotian Weng, Zijun Gao, Jerone Andrews, Jieyu Zhao. EMNLP 2024.
"You Gotta be a Doctor, Lin": An Investigation of Name-Based Bias of Large Language Models in Employment Recommendations
Huy Nghiem, John Prindle, Jieyu Zhao, Hal Daumé III. EMNLP 2024.
TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
Lichao Sun, Yue Huang, Haoran Wang, Siyuan Wu, ... , Jieyu Zhao, ..., Yan Liu, Yanfang Ye, Yinzhi Cao, Yong Chen, Yue Zhao. ICML 2024.
A dynamic approach to long-term fairness in sequential decision-making
Yuancheng Xu, Chenghao Deng, Yanchao Sun, Ruijie Zheng, Xiyao Wang, Jieyu Zhao, Furong Huang. ICML 2024.
Fair Abstractive Summarization of Diverse Perspectives
Yusen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Yixin Liu, Alexander Fabbri, Junru Liu, Ryo Kamoi, Xiaoxin Lu, Caiming Xiong, Jieyu Zhao, Dragomir Radev, Kathleen McKeown, Rui Zhang. NAACL 2024.
Safer-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Automated Preference Data
Taiwei Shi, Kai Chen, Jieyu Zhao. NAACL 2024.
A Rose by Any Other Name would not Smell as Sweet: Social Bias in Name Mistranslations
Sandra Sandoval, Jieyu Zhao, Marine Carpuat, and Hal Daume III. EMNLP 2023.
Are Personalized Stochastic Parrots More Dangerous? Evaluating Persona Biases in Dialogue Systems
Yixin Wan, Jieyu Zhao, Aman Chadha, Nanyun Peng, and Kai-Wei Chang. EMNLP-Finding, 2023.
Mind What You Measure For: A Study on Reliability of Prompt-Based Bias Measurement
Ruyuan Zuo, and Jieyu Zhao. WiNLP 2023.
Ruijie Zheng, Xiyao Wang, Yanchao Sun, Shuang Ma, Jieyu Zhao, Huazhe Xu, Hal Daume, Furong Huang. NeurIPS, 2023.
SODAPOP: Open-Ended Discovery of Social Biases in Social Commonsense Reasoning Models
Haozhe An, Zongxia Li, Jieyu Zhao, Rachel Rudinger. EACL 2023.
Investigating Ensemble Methods for Model Robustness Improvement of Text Classifiers
Jieyu Zhao, Xuezhi Wang, Yao Qin, Jilin Chen, Kai-Wei Chang. EMNLP Findings, 2022.
Ethical-Advice Taker: Do Language Models Understand Natural Language Interventions?
Jieyu Zhao, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, and Kai-Wei Chang.
ACL Findings, 2021.
Double Perturbation: On the Robustness of Robustness and Counterfactual Bias Evaluation
Chong Zhang, Jieyu Zhao, Huan Zhang, Kai-Wei Chang, and Cho-Jui Hsieh.
NAACL 2021.
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.
Tianlu Wang, Jieyu Zhao, Mark Yatskar, Kai-Wei Chang, Vicente Ordonez.
International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2019.
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)
Press: Wired: Machines Taught By Photos Learn a Sexist View of Women