Jessica Ouyang

Jessica Ouyang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), affiliated with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. Her research focuses on computational narrative, text generation, and scientific document processing, with applications in healthcare and social media analysis.

**Education**:

• PhD in Computer Science (Columbia University, 2019)
• MS in Computer Science (Columbia University, 2015)
• BAS in Computer and Cognitive Science & BA in Linguistics (University of Pennsylvania, 2012)

**Research Interests**: Jessica’s work bridges NLP and computational linguistics, emphasizing:

• Automated trauma intervention tools using machine learning
• Citation text generation and scientific document analysis
• Narrative structure modeling for healthcare and activism

Her 2021 Best Paper Award at WASSA recognized work on detecting hashtag hijacking in social movements.

**Key Contributions**: Over 15 peer-reviewed publications since 2019, including influential work on:

• Related work generation frameworks (CORWA dataset)
• Lightweight multimodal models for sequential data
• Computational analysis of medical student career choices

Active in academic service, she serves as Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review and program committee member for top conferences like AAAI and EMNLP.