Tiancheng Hu

Tiancheng Hu

PhD student Computation, Cognition and Language at Cambridge

University of Cambridge

Biography

I am a first-year second year PhD student Computation, Cognition and Language at the Language Technology Lab at University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Nigel Collier. I have broad interests in natural language processing and computational social science. Most recently, my research encompasses two aspects: 1) understanding the inherent biases of LLMs through text generation 2) employing LLMs to understand biased language use in human communication. Previously, I completed my master’s in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zürich. My master’s thesis is about quotative usage in U.S political news. It was done at The Data Science Lab at EPFL, supervised by Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Prof. Andreas Spitz and Prof. Robert West.

I obtained a Bachlor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas, advised by Prof. Carlos Busso. I worked on driver head pose estimation with 3D data.

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Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computational Social Science
  • Bias
  • Human-AI Interaction
Education
  • PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language, 2026 (Expected)

    University of Cambridge

  • MSc in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 2022

    ETH Zürich

  • BSc in Electrical Engineering, 2020

    The University of Texas at Dallas

Publications

(2023). Generative Language Models Exhibit Social Identity Biases. arXiv.

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(2023). Quotatives Indicate Decline in Objectivity in US Political News. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

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(2022). The Causal News Corpus: Annotating Causal Relations in Event Sentences from News. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.

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(2021). Drug Re-positioning via Text Augmented Knowledge Graph Embeddings. NeurIPS 2021 Workshop AI4Science.

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(2021). Discovering Black Lives Matter Events in the United States: Shared Task 3, CASE 2021. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021).

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Professional Service

Reviewer for ICWSM (2023,2024), CHI (2024)

About Me

I am from Nanjing, China and have lived in Dallas (TX), Zurich, Lausanne and now Cambridge. I enjoy hiking, cooking, and learning about the interplay of politics, language, and society.