Li Zhang
About
Li "Harry" Zhang is an assistant professor at Drexel University, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). He obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. Chris Callison-Burch. Prior, he obtained his Bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, mentored by Prof. Rada Mihalcea and Prof. Dragomir Radev. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in NLP and AI conferences, such as ACL, EMNLP and AACL, that have been cited more than 1,000 times with an h-index over 10. He also consistently serves as Area Chair, Session Chair and reviewer in those venues. Being a musician, producer and content creator with over 50,000 subscribers, he is also passionate in the research of AI music and creativity.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Improving text-to-sql evaluation methodology
Year: 2018
Citations: 376
Venue: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Latest Recorded Paper
TurnaboutLLM: A Deductive Reasoning Benchmark from Detective Games
Year: 2025
Citations: 4
Venue: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.