Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "tRAG: Term-level Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Retrieval" in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "Return of EM: Entity-driven Answer Set Expansion for QA Evaluation" in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "Are LLM-Judges Robust to Expressions of Uncertainty? Investigating the effect of Epistemic Markers on LLM-based Evaluation" in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "AdvisorQA: Towards Helpful and Harmless Advice-seeking Question Answering with Collective Intelligence" in Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

Yucong Jiang, assistant professor of computer science, and Chris Miller, visiting assistant professor of political science, published "Congressional rhetoric on Twitter and the crisis of democracy" in Communication and Democracy.

Stephanie Spera was promoted to associate professor of geography, environment, & sustainability. Her research seeks to understand landscape-level human-environment feedbacks regarding social, economic, and environmental drivers and consequences. 

Taylor Arnold, professor of data science and statistics, received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.

Lauren Tilton was promoted to professor of digital humanities and was appointed the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts. Tilton specializes in analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.

Taylor Arnold was promoted to professor of data science and statistics. Arnold’s research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and contributes to the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Cultural Analytics through his expertise as a mathematician and data scientist.

Lauren Tilton, E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, and undergraduate student Mia Lazar, '24, have received a grant from Virginia Humanities for their project, Digital Documerica: Picturing the Environment in 1970’s America. Digital Documerica is a joint project of The Digital Scholarship Lab and the Distant Viewing Lab.

Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, along with Elizabeth Kissling, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published the article "Preliminary Evidence that Applied Cognitive Linguistics is Effective for Novice Learners Regardless of their Individual Differences" in Language Teaching Research. 

Stephanie Spera, assistant professor of geography, environment, and sustainability, was awarded a NASA Grant for research in Brazil’s Cerrado Frontier. Read more.