Invited Talk: Danqi Chen 🤝🗣️ How Data Domains Improve Language Model Pre-Training

Danqi Chen is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and co-leads the Princeton NLP Group. She also serves as an Associate Director of Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI), an initiative focused on developing fundamental research of large AI models. Her recent research centers on training, adapting, and understanding language models (LMs), with an emphasis on making them more accessible to academia. Before joining Princeton, Danqi was a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research in Seattle. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University (2018) and her B.E. from Tsinghua University (2012), both in Computer Science. Her work has been recognized with a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award, and multiple outstanding paper awards from ACL and EMNLP.