معرفی
Haopeng Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, leading the ALOHA Lab. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis (advised by Dr. Jiawei Zhang), dual M.S. degrees from Georgia Tech (Electrical Engineering and Computational Science), and a B.S. from UIUC (Electrical Engineering). His research focuses on NLP, Generative AI, AI4Science, and Graph Mining, emphasizing biomedical applications, multimodal reasoning, and workflow generation. Recent achievements include organizing workshops at EMNLP and ACL, receiving grants from NSF and OpenAI, and developing tools like StrucSum and MermaidFlow.
- Education:
- Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Davis (2024)
- M.S., Electrical Engineering & Computational Science, Georgia Tech
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, UIUC
Research interests span structural summarization, LLM applications in healthcare and linguistics, and graph-based NLP systems. His work bridges theoretical advancements with practical tools, including the ALOHA Lab's contributions to reliable summarization systems and multimodal benchmarks. Notable contributions include the DomainSum benchmark and Wi-Chat wireless sensing framework.
Key awards include UH travel grants, OpenAI credits, and NSF computing allocations. He actively serves on conference committees (ACL, KDD) and reviews for top journals (ACM TKDD, IEEE transactions). Teaching responsibilities include Advanced AI and Machine Learning courses at UH Mānoa.
Lab activities focus on AI-driven solutions for scientific domains, with ongoing projects in biomedical event extraction and low-resource language support.
