About Me

This is Shufan and I am a third year computer science MS/PhD student at UMass Amherst. My research interests lie mostly in the area of natural language processing and machine learning. My advisor is Professor Mohit Iyyer. Throughout my journey in research, I am also fortunate enough to collaborate with the awesome Dan Sheldon and Nanyun Peng. Previously I completed my bachelor degree from Trinity College in Connecticut.

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Publications

STORIUM: A Dataset and Evaluation Platform for Machine-in-the-Loop Story Generation
Nader Akoury, Shufan Wang, Josh Whiting, Stephen Hood, Nanyun Peng and Mohit Iyyer
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020
[Paper]

General-Purpose Differentially-Private Confidence Intervals
Cecilia Ferrando, Shufan Wang, Daniel Sheldon
In Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP), Conference Paper, 2020
[Paper] [Code]

Casting Light on Invisible Cities: Computationally Engaging with Literary Criticism
Shufan Wang, Mohit Iyyer
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Short Paper, 2019
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Evolving Network Structure of Academic Institutions
Shufan Wang, Mariam Avagyan, and Per Sebastian Skardal
Applied Network Science 2, 1, 2017
[Paper] [Press]

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Teaching

• Fall 2020 - COMPSCI-685 Advanced Natural Language Processing (Teaching Assistant)
• Fall 2020 - COMPSCI-585 Natural Language Processing (Teaching Assistant)
• Spring 2019 - COMPSCI-105 Computer Literacy (Teaching Assistant)
• Fall 2018 - COMPSCI-121 Introduction to Problem Solving with Computers (Teaching Assistant)

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