Hi there! My name is Chau. I use she/her pronouns and publish under Chau Minh Pham. I am currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst, where I am advised by Professor Mohit Iyyer in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab. My recent work has focused on long-form text generation and long-context reasoning.
Previously, I graduated from Colgate University, where I was advised by Professor Joel Sommers. I spent most of my undergraduate years working on statistical test visualization apps at the Data Science Collaboratory. I also worked briefly on AI harm anticipation at Microsoft Research (FATE) and COVID-19 emotion analysis in the CRA-WP DREU program.
News
November 2024: Presenting Suri at EMNLP 2024 (+ WNU)! See you in Miami 🌴
November 2024: Released a Python package for TopicGPT! See TopicGPT page for more details.
October 2024: Gave a guest lecture at Mount Holyoke College (COMSC 341NL - Topics: 'Natural Language Processing') on generating and reasoning over long-form texts.
Selected Work
See Google Scholar for a complete list of publications.
Suri: Multi-constraint Instruction Following for Long-form Text Generation
Chau Minh Pham, Simeng Sun, Mohit Iyyer
EMNLP 2024 (findings); 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding
[Paper]
[Project Page]
[Code]
[Poster]
[BibTeX]
TopicGPT: A Prompt-based Topic Modeling Framework
Chau Minh Pham, Alexander Hoyle, Simeng Sun, Philip Resnik, Mohit Iyyer
NAACL 2024
[Paper]
[Project Page]
[Code]
[Poster]
[BibTeX]
AHA!: Facilitating AI Impact Assessment by Generating Examples of Harms
Zana Buçinca, Chau Minh Pham, Maurice Jakesch, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Alexandra Olteanu, Saleema Amershi
arXiv 2023
[Preprint]
[BibTeX]
Emotion analysis and detection during COVID-19
Tiberiu Sosea, Chau Pham, Alexander Tekle, Cornelia Caragea, Junyi Jessy Li
LREC 2022
[Paper]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
Teaching/Mentoring
UMass Amherst
Mentor - 2023-24: Early Research Scholars Program
TA - COMPSCI 685 - S24: Advanced Natural Language Processing
TA - COMPSCI 110 - Su23: Foundations of Programming
Colgate University
TA - CS 480A - F21: Natural Language Processing
TA - CS 101 - F19, S20, S21, S22: Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures
Miscellaneous
I use my middle name, Minh, in publications to distinguish myself from other Chau Phams who are also PhD students. "Minh" means bright and intelligent, while "Châu" refers to a precious pearl. Together, the name "Minh Châu" carries my parents' wishes for me to grow into a gifted and pure human being.
In my free time, I enjoy lifting weights, reading, and cooking experimentally.
I am originally from Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳. If you are planning to visit Hanoi, I would recommend checking out Nguyen Phan Que Mai's read your way through Hanoi and bún ốc (snail vermicelli soup).