The NLP Group at Penn State

  Yuchen Wei joined the NLP group in the fall of 2024, the second year of his masters program, to work on use of LLMs for assessment of student's conceptual understanding of statistics based on their responses to short answer questions. He graduated, then commenced on May 11, 2025, as shown here with his advisor Becky Passonneau.

On May 10th, marking the end of the 2025 Spring semester, the annual NLP gathering was hosted at the home of Prof. Rebecca J. Passonneau. The event brought together members from three NLP research groups in the Penn State Computer Science and Engineering department, led by Prof. Rebecca J. Passonneau, Prof. Rui Zhang, and Prof. Wenpeng Yin. Everyone was happy that we had a day of warm sunshine, since it had been raining all week. It was the first time the NLP party used the firepit, which lent a special spark. 😉