# Violet (Nanyun) Peng

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Email: violetpeng@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-7284
Fax: (310) 794-5057

Websites

- Website

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

- R^3: Reverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation with Commonsense Knowledge
- Tuhin Chakrabarty, Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan and Nanyun Peng. ACL 2020.

##### IN THE NEWS

- Deep Dive: ChatGPT, Part 1 | Daily Bruin, October 2023
- The Twitch Seinfeld Show Proves AI Shouldn’t Write Comedy | Wired, February 2023
- Is ChatGPT a Marvel or a Farce? We Interviewed the Chatbot to Find Out | Los Angeles Times, December 2022
- UC Researchers win grant to develop pandemic prediction technology | Daily Bruin, October 2022

##### EDUCATION

PhD, [2017] John Hopkins University - Computer Science

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2023
- Google Research Scholar Award, 2023
- NAACL Paper Award, 2022
- Keynote Talk at EMNLP, 2019