Danqi Chen
Danqi Chen is a Chinese-American computer scientist and assistant professor at Princeton University specializing in the AI field of NLP. In 2019, she joined the Princeton NLP group, alongside Sanjeev Arora, Christiane Fellbaum, Karthik Narasimhan. She was previously a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research. She earned her Ph.D at Stanford University and her BS from Tsinghua University.
Chen is the author of Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond, a book on using artificial intelligence to access knowledge in ordinary and structured documents. She is the author or co-author of a number of journal articles, including Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions.
She won a gold medal at the International Informatics Olympiad. She is known among friends as CDQ. A well known algorithm in competitive programming, CDQ Divide and Conquer, is named after this acronym. Her primary research interests are in text understanding and knowledge representation and reasoning.
