Jen-Tse (Jay) Huang

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I am a Postdoc in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), working with Prof. Mark Dredze (Director, JHU DSAI Institute). I also work closely with Prof. Maarten Sap at CMU LTI.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2024, advised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu (IEEE Life Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow).

I obtained my B.Sc. in Computer Science at Peking University (PKU) in 2019. I was a student in Yuanpei College, where students can choose any majors and take any courses from the entire university. This chance made me able to enjoy the knowledge in not only computer science, but also psychology, sociology, economics, and philosophy, motivating my research shown below.

Research Interests

1

[The Agent] How an AI agent behaves on its own

what it says about itself ICLR'24 Oral NeurIPS'24 EMNLP-Main'24 ACL-Main'24

what it does arXiv'25 ACL-Findings'26 arXiv'26

2

[Agent-Agent] How an AI agent behaves among models

how individuals interact ICLR'25 ICML'25 EMNLP-Main'26

what collective they form arXiv'25 arXiv'26

3

[Agent-Human] How an AI agent behaves toward humans

what the biases are ACMMM'24 Oral EMNLP-Main'25 EMNLP-Main'25 ACL-Main'26

what the biases cost ACL-Findings'24 arXiv'26

My research answers: What should be validated before a human-AI society?

News

[Aug. 2026] One paper is accepted to EMNLP'26 main conference!
[Aug. 2026] One paper is accepted to TMLR!
[Jul. 2026] Our 1st IAB Workshop will be held at NeurIPS'26!
[Jul. 2026] One paper is accepted to COLM'26!
[May. 2026] One paper is accepted to KDD'26!
[Apr. 2026] One paper is accepted to ICML'26!
[Apr. 2026] Seven papers are accepted to ACL'26! Four to main conference; Three to findings.
[Jan. 2026] One paper is accepted to ICLR'26!
[Nov. 2025] Selected as one of the KAUST Rising Stars in AI 2026!
[Oct. 2025] Our 1st PersonaLLM Workshop will be held at NeurIPS'25!
[Sep. 2025] Two papers are accepted to NeurIPS'25!
[Aug. 2025] Five papers are accepted to EMNLP'25! Four to main conference; One to findings.

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[May. 2025] Four papers are accepted to ACL'25! Three to main conference; One to findings.
[May. 2025] Two papers are accepted to ICML'25!
[Mar. 2025] One paper is accepted to NAACL Demo Track'25!
[Feb. 2025] I join the CLSP at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as a postdoc, working with Prof. Mark Dredze!
[Jan. 2025] One paper is accepted to ICLR'25!
[Dec. 2024] I defend my PhD thesis and graduate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)!
[Nov. 2024] Named as one of the Outstanding Reviewers for EMNLP'24!
[Nov. 2024] Named as one of the Top Reviewers for NeurIPS'24! [1304/15160 8.6%]
[Oct. 2024] One paper is accepted to Neurocomputing!
[Sep. 2024] One paper is accepted to NeurIPS'24!
[Sep. 2024] Three paper is accepted to EMNLP'24! All three to main conference.
[Jul. 2024] One paper is accepted to ACMMM'24 and selected as an ORAL!
[Jul. 2024] I am visiting the LIME Lab at University of Southern California (USC), working with Prof. Jieyu Zhao.
[May. 2024] Three paper is accepted to ACL'24! Two to main conference; One to findings.
[Jan. 2024] Two papers are accepted to ICLR'24! Our PsychoBench is selected as an ORAL!
[Oct. 2023] One paper is accepted to Findings of EMNLP'23!
[Jul. 2023] One paper is accepted to ASE'23!
[Feb. 2023] One paper is accepted to CVPR'23!
[Dec. 2022] One paper is accepted to ICSE'23!
[Sep. 2022] We win the first place in WMT'22: Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages!
[Apr. 2022] One paper is accepted to ISSTA'22!
[Mar. 2022] I join the NLP Center of Tencent AI Lab as a research intern, supervised by Dr. Wenxiang Jiao and Dr. Zhaopeng Tu.
[Mar. 2022] One paper is accepted to CVPR'22!
[Aug. 2020] I join the ARISE Lab as a Ph.D. student in CSE Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu.
[Feb. 2020] I become a research assistant of Prof. Michael R. Lyu in CSE Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
[Sep. 2019] I have to fulfill the compulsory military service in Taiwan. See you four months later!
[Jun. 2019] I graduate from Yuanpei College at Peking University!
[Nov. 2018] My undergraduate final year project is supervised by Prof. Bolei Zhou and Prof. Jiaying Liu.
[Feb. 2018] I join the Research Department at SenseTime as a research intern, supervised by Dr. Chen Qian and Prof. Bolei Zhou.

Talks

[May 26 2026] "Alignment of the Undesired and Misalignment of the Desired," at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, hosted by Prof. Hong Yu.
[Apr 3 2026] "On the Failure of Latent State Persistence in Large Language Models," as NLP seminar series of Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing, Baltimore, MD. [News]
[Feb 11 2026] "Evaluating Human-AI Alignment Inspired by Cognitive & Psychological Science," at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. [News]
[Nov 8 2025] "LLMs Do Not Have Human-Like Working Memories," keynote speech at the Ninth WiNLP Workshop@EMNLP2025, Suzhou. [News]
[May 1 2025] "LLMs Do Not Have Human-Like Working Memories," at University of Southern California, Virtually. [News]
[Apr 28 2025] "LLMs Do Not Have Human-Like Working Memories," at National University of Singapore, Singapore, hosted by Dr. Zhaomin Wu.
[Apr 3 2024] "On the Humanity of Large Language Models," at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, hosted by Prof. Rui Wang.
[Apr 2 2024] "On the Humanity of Large Language Models," at Fudan University, Shanghai. [News (Chinese)]
[Mar 6 2024] Youth PhD Talk-ICLR 2024, AI TIME, Virtually. [News (Chinese)]