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2025

2025-05-15: 🚥 Thrilled to announce that I will be conducting a research stay in September at the CopeNLU group, led by Isabelle Augenstein, funded by the Danish Data Science Academy(DDSA).

2025-04-29: I gave an invited talk at Efficient and Explainable NLP (E&E) Group, MLT Lab, DFKI about FitCF paper.

2025-01-15: 🎉 Exciting News from AI Founder Fellowship Program: I'm glad to announce that I have received funding granted by German Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech) and Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV), supporting PhD students with up to 32 Mio. Euro over 9 months for their doctoral research projects/start-up ideas.

2024

2024-12-15: I will be at COLING 2025 to present our Cross-Refine paper. See you in Abu Dhabi!

2024-12-11: 🌴 One new paper in submission about feature importance-guided counterfactual example generation (FitCF). The preprint is now available on arXiv!

2024-11-29: The 3rd first-authored paper titled Cross-Refine: Improving Natural Language Explanation Generation by Learning in Tandem accepted at COLING 2025, which will be hold in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates🏜️!

2024-11-08: I will be in Miami at EMNLP 2024 to present our CoXQL paper. See you in Miami!

2024-10-15: One co-authored paper about LLM self-explanation alignment is in submission!

2024-09-20: The 2nd first-authored paper CoXQL: A Dataset for Parsing Explanation Requests in Conversational XAI Systems accepted at EMNLP 2024 Findings, which will be hold in Miami, USA 🗽!

2024-09-12: One new paper in submission: an NLG paper for improving explanations via cross-refinement (Cross-Refine).

2024-07-12: One co-authored paper - Towards Modeling and Evaluating Instructional Explanations in Teacher-Student Dialogues accepted to ACM GoodIT 2024.

2024-06-12: One new paper in submission: A question answering (resource) paper on the conversational parsing explanation requests (CoXQL).

2024-04-19: The 1st first-authored paper LLMCheckup: Conversational Examination of Large Language Models via Interpretability Tools and Self-Explanations accepted to NAACL 2024 HCI+NLP workshop🛕!

2024-02-28: Two new papers in submission: A follow-up to InterroLang on the conversational examination of self-explaining LLMs (LLMCheckup) and a resource and evaluation paper on instructional explanations in teacher-student dialogues (ReWIRED).

2023

2023-10-08: InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations accepted to EMNLP 2023 Findings🦁!