Hi there! My name is Chau. I use she/her pronouns and publish under Chau Minh Pham. I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park, where I am advised by Professor Mohit Iyyer in the CLIP Lab. My recent work has focused on building instruction-following datasets to enable long-context reasoning and open-ended text generation.
Previously, I completed my master's degree at UMass Amherst. Even before that, 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
Jan 2025: Transferred to UMD College Park with my advisor!
Nov 2024: Presenting Suri at EMNLP 2024 (+ WNU)! See you in Miami 🌴
Nov 2024: Released a Python package for TopicGPT! See TopicGPT page for more details.
Oct 2024: Gave a guest lecture at Mount Holyoke College (COMSC 341NL - Topics: 'Natural Language Processing') on generating and reasoning over long-form texts.
Research
CLIPPER: Compression enables long-context synthetic data generation
Chau Minh Pham, Yapei Chang, Mohit Iyyer
Under review; 7th WNU
[Paper]
[Code]
[HuggingFace]
[BibTeX]
Suri: Multi-constraint Instruction Following for Long-form Text Generation
Chau Minh Pham, Simeng Sun, Mohit Iyyer
EMNLP 2024 (findings); 6th WNU
[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]
2025
CLIPPER: Compression enables long-context synthetic data generation
Chau Minh Pham, Yapei Chang, Mohit Iyyer
arXiv 2025
[Paper]
[Code]
[HuggingFace]
[BibTeX]
BEARCUBS: A benchmark for computer-using web agents
Yixiao Song, Katherine Thai, Chau Minh Pham, Yapei Chang, Mazin Nadaf, Mohit Iyyer
arXiv 2025
[Paper]
[Website]
[BibTeX]
Whose story is it? Personalizing story generation by inferring author styles
Nischal Ashok Kumar, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew Lan
arXiv 2025
[Paper]
[BibTeX]
ProxyGPT: Enabling Anonymous Queries in AI Chatbots with (Un) Trustworthy Browser Proxies
Dzung Pham, Jade Sheffey, Chau Minh Pham, Amir Houmansadr
MADWeb 2025
[Paper]
[BibTeX]
2024
Interactive Topic Models with Optimal Transport
Garima Dhanania*, Sheshera Mysore*, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, Hamed Zamani, Andrew McCallum
arXiv 2024
[Paper]
[BibTeX]
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]
The prompt report: A systematic survey of prompting techniques
Sander Schulhoff, Michael Ilie, Nishant Balepur, Konstantine Kahadze, Amanda Liu, Chenglei Si, Yinheng Li, Aayush Gupta, HyoJung Han, Sevien Schulhoff, Pranav Sandeep Dulepet, Saurav Vidyadhara, Dayeon Ki, Sweta Agrawal, Chau Pham, Gerson Kroiz, Feileen Li, Hudson Tao, Ashay Srivastava, Hevander Da Costa, Saloni Gupta, Megan L Rogers, Inna Goncearenco, Giuseppe Sarli, Igor Galynker, Denis Peskoff, Marine Carpuat, Jules White, Shyamal Anadkat, Alexander Hoyle, Philip Resnik
arXiv 2024
[Paper]
[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]
2023
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]
2022
Emotion analysis and detection during COVID-19
Tiberiu Sosea, Chau Pham, Alexander Tekle, Cornelia Caragea, Junyi Jessy Li
LREC 2022
[Paper]
[Code]
[BibTeX]
2021
Reassessing the constancy of end-to-end internet latency
Lily Davisson*, Joakim Jakovleski*, Nhiem Ngo*, Chau Pham*, Joel Sommers
TMA 2021
[Paper]
[BibTeX]
Teaching/Mentoring
UMD College Park
TA - CMSC 848O - S25: Seminar on Long-context Language Models
UMass Amherst
Mentor - 2025: Industry Mentorship Program
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 cháo Ä‘áºu cà (green pea porridge with marinated fried tofu and fermented thai eggplants).