I am a final year PhD student in Transformation, Interpretation, and Analysis of Language (TIAL) lab and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at the University of Washington. My advisor is Dr. Mari Ostendorf. My research interests focus on deep learning and its applications on conversational natural language.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research or have any questions. I am more than happy to hear from you!

Email: roylu [at] uw [dot] edu

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News

• Mar 2024: Our paper Encode Once and Decode in Parallel: Efficient Transformer Decoding is on Arxiv! Code will be released soon!
• Oct 2023: DIALGEN code and data are released! [code] [data] [project]
• July 2023: Our paper DIALGEN: Collaborative Human-LM Generated Dialogues for Improved Understanding of Human-Human Conversations is on Arxiv!
• Oct 2022: Our paper Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Conversation Structure is accept by EMNLP 2022 Findings.
• Sep 2021: Our paper DIALKI: Knowledge Identification in Conversational Systems through Dialogue-Document Contextualization is accept by EMNLP 2021.
• Aug 2021: Our team wins 1st prize of DialDoc Shared Task subtask 1 in the 1st DialDoc Workshop at ACL 2021.