Dr. Nanyun Peng

Biography

Nanyun (Violet) Peng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, where she specialized in the Center for Language and Speech Processing. Her research interests focus on the generalizability of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, particularly in the applications of creative language generation, low-resource information extraction, and zero-shot cross-lingual transfer. Nanyun's work has been recognized with several awards, including the Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL and the Paper Award at the AAAI Deep Learning Graphs workshop. She has also been featured in the IJCAI early career spotlight. Her research has been supported by grants from DARPA, IARPA, and NIH, as well as various industrial faculty awards.

Research Interests