Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Google Senior Staff Research Scientist and UCLA associate professor (on leave) working on creative NLP
- Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google1
- Associate Professor (on leave), Computer Science Department; director of PLUSLAB, University of California, Los Angeles1
Nanyun (Violet) Peng is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google and an Associate Professor (on leave) in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, where Peng directs PLUSLAB (Peng's Language Understanding and Synthesis Lab). The lab's research covers controllable and creative language generation, multimodal foundation models, automatic evaluation of foundation models, and low-resource, multilingual natural language understanding. Before UCLA, Peng was a Research Assistant Professor in computer science at the University of Southern California and a Research Lead at its Information Sciences Institute. Peng is a co-author of Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling, which first plans a storyline and then generates a story from it.12
Work
Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2018 paper proposing a hierarchical plan-and-write framework for open-domain story generation from a title, comparing dynamic and static storyline planning.2
Earlier roles
- Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science; Research Lead, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California1
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