Bio
Originally from Beijing, China, I am currently a Ph.D. student in the NLP group at MIT CSAIL. I received my M.S. in computer science, B.S. in computer science, and B.A. in linguistics from the University of Washington.
I love computers, languages, and teaching computers to understand languages. For that, I have previously done research at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) (as a PYI), and at the University of Washington with Prof. Noah Smith and Prof. Fei Xia. I have also worked on many interesting NLP and machine learning problems in the industry when I interned at Google, Facebook Meta, and other places.
I co-organize NLP with Friends, a seminar series where we chat about NLP research. Come join us!
Two friends and I have also built a platform, cs-sop.org, where past applicants to CS PhD programs have generously shared their statements of purpose and other advice. We hope this could be a useful resource for future applicants.
Publications
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Zhaofeng Wu,
William Merrill,
Hao Peng,
Iz Beltagy, and
Noah A. Smith
To appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2023.
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Alisa Liu,
Zhaofeng Wu,
Julian Michael,
Alane Suhr,
Peter West,
Alexander Koller,
Swabha Swayamdipta,
Noah A. Smith, and
Yejin Choi
Unpublished manuscript, 2023.
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Zhaofeng Wu,
Robert L. Logan IV,
Pete Walsh,
Akshita Bhagia,
Dirk Groeneveld,
Sameer Singh, and
Iz Beltagy
In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022.
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Zhaofeng Wu,
Hao Peng,
Nikolaos Pappas, and
Noah A. Smith
In Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings), 2022.
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Hao Peng,
Jungo Kasai,
Nikolaos Pappas,
Dani Yogatama,
Zhaofeng Wu,
Lingpeng Kong,
Roy Schwartz, and
Noah A. Smith
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022.
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Zhaofeng Wu
Unpublished manuscript, 2022.
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Zhaofeng Wu,
Hao Peng, and
Noah A. Smith
In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021.
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Zhaofeng Wu and
Matt Gardner
In Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference @ EMNLP, 2021.
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Zhaofeng Wu,
Ding Zhao,
Qiao Liang,
Jiahui Yu,
Anmol Gulati, and
Ruoming Pang
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021.
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Zhaofeng Wu,
Yan Song,
Sicong Huang,
Yuanhe Tian, and
Fei Xia
In BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task @ ACL, 2019.
Guest Lectures
Graph Neural Networks for NLP
For UW CSE 481N: NLP Capstone
Host Instructor: Noah Smith
May 2021