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Huan Sun

Huan is an associate professor (with tenure) in the CSE Department at the Ohio State University. She was a visiting scientist at the University of Washington (2016) and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara (2015) and a B.S. in EEIS from the University of Science and Technology of China (2010). Her research interests lie in natural language processing, data mining and AI, with emphasis on natural language interfaces (NLIs) to texts, tables, knowledge graphs, relational databases and computer programs (i.e., question answering, semantic parsing, program synthesis) and making such NLIs interactive and conversational to help users complete tasks through dialogue. Huan received the NSF CAREER Award (2020), Google Faculty Award (2020), OSU Lumley Research Award (2020), SIGKDD Ph.D. Dissertation Runner-Up Award (2016), the honor of being MIT EECS Rising Stars (2015), Outstanding Dissertation Award from UCSB CS (2015), the UC Regents’ Special Fellowship (2010, 2014).

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Graduate Student

Zhen Wang
Ph.D. Student
Boshi Wang
Ph.D. Student
Xiang Yue
Ph.D. Student
Xiang Deng
Ph.D. Student
Lingbo Mo
Ph.D. Student (Jointly with Prof. Mike White)
Tianshu Zhang
Ph.D. Student
Leslie Zhou
Master Student

I also closely work with the following students:

  • Ash Lewis (with Prof. Mike White in Linguistics)

Undergraduate Student

Visiting Student

  • Bernhard Kratzwald (Oct 2019 – Feb 2020, from ETH)
  • Shuyi Song (Sep 2019 – Aug 2020, from Zhenjiang University)
  • Sicong Ouyang (Sep 2019 – Dec 2019, from BUPT & Tsinghua)
  • Boyuan Pan (Nov 2018 – May 2019, with financial support provided, from Zhejiang University)
  • Yuantong Li (Sep 2018 – Jan 2019, with financial support provided, now at Cornell)

Alumni