Teaching
I enjoy teaching and mentoring students with diverse backgrounds.
Courses
- Head TA: CSE 599J: Data-centric Machine Learning (Winter 2024)
- Head TA: CSE 473: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2023)
Conference tutorial
- Instructor of ACL Tutorial on Retrieval-augmented LMs.
Invited Lectures
- Invited lecture about Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation at CMU 11-711: Advanced NLP (Spring 2025) slide
- Invited lecture about Past, Present and Future of Retrieval-augmented Language Models at University of Wisconsin-Madison CS 769: Advanced Natural Language Processing (Fall 2024)
- Invited lecture about Past, Present and Future of Retrieval-augmented Language Models at CMU 11-667: Large Language Models and Applications (Fall 2024)
- Invited lecture about Retrieval-augmented LMs at Washington University in St. Louis CSE 561A: Large Language Models (Spring 2024)
- Invited lecture about Retrieval-augmented LMs at Yale CPSC 477/577: NLP (Spring 2024)
- Invited lecture about State-of-the-art of RAG at CMU 11-711: Advanced NLP (Spring 2024)
- Invited lecture about Retrieval-augmented LMs at UW CSE 447: Natural Language Processing (Winter 2024) (slides) (video)
- Invited lecture about Introduction to AI at UW CSE 473: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2023)
- Invited lecture about Multilingual NLP at UW CSE 447: Natural Language Processing (Winter 2023)
- Invited lecture at UW CSE 373: Data Structures and Algorithms
Mentoring
I’m fortunate to work with passionate and talented undergraduate and graduate students.
- Velocity Yu, UW CSE BS Undergrad -> USC Ph.D. April 2021 - June 2022.
- Alex Mallen, UW CSE Undergrad –> EleutherAI. April 2022 - July 2023.
- Daniel Kim, UW CSE Ph.D. student. September 2022-July 2023.
- Abhika Mishra, UW CSE undergrad. January 2023 - Present.
- Go Kamoda, Tohoku University CS Master student. March 2023 - Present.
- Rulin Shao, UW CSE Ph.D. student. February 2024 - July 2024.
- Tong Chen, UW CSE Ph.D. student. February 2024 - Present.
Community Office Hours
I’ve been running weekly office hours open to everyone since 2022 to answer questions about research, Ph.D. applications … etc.