LUKA -- The Capital NLP Group of California

Reasoning Guardrails for the Agentic Web

Invited talks at CoLM Workshop on AI Agents, UC Davis Linguistics Colluquium, Agentic AI Frontier Seminars, USF Rising Innovators Talk
Safety Enhancement of LLMs
Combating Security and Privacy Issues in the Era of Large Language Models: Addressing Training-time Threats to LLMs

Invited talks at Adobe - San Jose, the Allerton Conference, UC Merced
Indirectly Supervised NLP: Supervision Signals from Generative and Retrieval Tasks
Robust and Indirectly Supervised Information Extraction

Presented at MSR Redmond, Apple Silicon Valley, UCLA, UCI, UCSB, UC Davis, UMN, ASU, Purdue
Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language

Presented at UCLA, Cambridge, ASU, UCSB, OSU, NUS, Nanjing Univ., Fudan, IBM Research Almaden, Tencent AI Lab Seattle, Purdue, Rutgers–New Brunswick, UCSC
Knowledge Acquisition with Transferable Representation Learning

Presented at USC, IBM Research Almaden, Fudan, Stanford, UCLA
Bridging Between Tables and Human Languages