About Me

This is Shufan and I am a fourth year computer science MS/PhD student at UMass Amherst. My research interests lie mostly in the area of natural language processing and machine learning. I am advised by Professor Mohit Iyyer, in the UMass NLP Lab. 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

Phrase-BERT: Improved Phrase Embeddings from BERT with an Application to Corpus Exploration
Shufan Wang, Laure Thompson, and Mohit Iyyer
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), long paper, 2021
[Paper] [Code]

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), long paper, 2020
[Paper] [Code]

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