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I am a PhD student at Penn NLP 
, where I have the privilege to be advised by Mark Yatskar. My research has included work on language and vision and evaluating language models.
My work is generously supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Previously, I completed a BS in Computer Science and BS in Applied Math at USC Viterbi 
. I am very fortunate to have worked with Maja Matariฤ, Jesse Thomason, and Stefanos Nikolaidis. I have had the pleasure to intern at the CMU Robotics Institute 
with Jean Oh, MIT Haystack Observatory 
with Mary Knapp, and Tsinghua University 
with Shaoxu Song.
I am extremely grateful for my peers, collaborators, and community who have helped me immensely, including Leena Mathur, Lauren Klein, Tejas Srinivasan, Serena Booth, Matthew Fontaine, Beverley-Claire Okogwu, Peter Schaldenbrand, Eliot Xing, members and alumni from CAIS++ 
and our advisor Bistra Dilkina.
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feb 2026 Paper ๐๐ ResearchQA, a benchmark for long-form scientific and scholarly synthesis, is accepted for publication in TACL, 2026.Paper ๐jun 2024 Virtual ๐Invited talk in the Cohere for AI: Community Talks series.Virtual ๐apr 2024 Award ๐Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund my graduate studies!Award ๐apr 2024 Award ๐feb 2024feb 2024 Vancouver, Canada ๐จ๐ฆPresented ๐ QDGS for Learning w/ Synthetic Data at AAAI 2024.Vancouver, Canada ๐จ๐ฆaug 2023 Dublin, Ireland ๐ฎ๐ชPresented ๐ Multimodal Speech Recognition for Language-Guided Embodied Agents at Interspeech 2023.Dublin, Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช-
aug 2023 Pittsburgh, PA ๐บ๐ธjun 2023 jun 2023 Rhodes, Greece ๐ฌ๐ทPresented ๐ Removing RFI from AKR with Autoencoders at ICASSP 2023.Rhodes, Greece ๐ฌ๐ทmar 2023 Award ๐Awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of two USC students.Award ๐oct 2022 Nara, Japan ๐ฏ๐ตPresented ๐ Evaluating Temporal Patterns in Applied Infant Affect Recognition at ACII 2022.Nara, Japan ๐ฏ๐ตaug 2022 Westford, MA ๐บ๐ธjun 2022aug 2021 Virtual ๐jun 2021aug 2020 Los Angeles, CA ๐บ๐ธStarted at the University of Southern California to pursue a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Applied Math.Los Angeles, CA ๐บ๐ธ- Show past events
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RESEARCHQA: Evaluating Scholarly Question Answering at Scale Across 75 Fields with Survey-Mined Questions and RubricsLi S. Yifei *, Allen Chang *, Chaitanya Malaviya, and Mark Yatskar.Accepted in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2026.PAL: Designing Conversational Agents as Scalable, Cooperative Patient Simulators for Palliative-Care TrainingNeil K. R. Sehgal *, Hita Kambhamettu *, Allen Chang *, Andrew Zhu *, Lyle Ungar, and Sharath C. Guntuku.Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2025.Quality-Diversity Generative Sampling for Learning with Synthetic DataAllen Chang, Matthew C. Fontaine, Serena Booth, Maja J. Matariฤ, and Stefanos Nikolaidis.Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.Multimodal Speech Recognition for Language-Guided Embodied AgentsAllen Chang, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Aarav Monga, Seoho Ahn, Tejas Srinivasan, and Jesse Thomason.Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), 2023. [Oral]Removing Radio Frequency Interference from Auroral Kilometric Radiation with Stacked AutoencodersAllen Chang, Mary Knapp, James LaBelle, John Swoboda, Ryan Volz, and Philip J. Erickson.International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.Evaluating Temporal Patterns in Applied Infant Affect RecognitionAllen Chang *, Lauren Klein *, Marcelo R. Rosales, Weiyang Deng, Beth A. Smith, and Maja J. Matariฤ.Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2022. [Oral]
* Equal contribution.