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Heng Ji

Heng Ji is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and founding director of the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE). Her research focuses on natural language processing, information extraction, knowledge-enhanced large language models, and vision-language models.

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Founding Director of AICE1 organizations1 reports

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Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Founding Director of AICE

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Heng Ji is a Professor of Computer Science at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and founding director of the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE). Official Illinois pages describe her research as focusing on natural language processing, especially multimedia multilingual information extraction, knowledge-enhanced large language models, and vision-language models. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from New York University.