Research Interests

• Natural language processing (text summarization, language generation, argumentation mining, information extraction)
• Computational social science
• Machine learning

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Cornell University
• BS in Intelligence Science and Engineering & B.Econ in Economics, Peking University

Biography

Lu Wang is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, her BS in Intelligence Science and Engineering and her B.Econ in Economics from Peking University. Professor Wang is interested in developing natural language processing and machine learning techniques to help people efficiently and effectively understand and absorb knowledge from large-scale text data with inherent noise. She received an outstanding short paper award at ACL 2017 and a best paper nomination award at SIGDIAL 2012.