Jingcheng (Frank) Niu

Hi! I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the UKP Lab @TU Darmstadt, led by Professor Iryna Gurevych.

Previously, I did my PhD at the Computational Linguistics Group @UofT. My advisor is Professor Gerald Penn. 牛靖程 is my name in Chinese.

I am interested in LLM Interpretability. You can find my research on the List of Publications.

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Feel free to email me about my research! I'm also happy to discuss research-related topics, grad school application, or careers in AI/NLP. Email: firstname dot lastname at tu-darmstadt.de.

News

[July 2025] Paper Llama See, Llama Do: A Mechanistic Perspective on Contextual Entrainment and Distraction in LLMs won the Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025!
[Jan 2025] I am joining the UKP Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
[Sep 2024] I am excited to teach CSC485/2501 Introduction to Computational Linguistics in the fall term!
[Jun 2024] I will be interning at MSR Montreal this summer.
[May 2024] Paper Accepted to ACL 2024 Findings! ConTempo: A Unified Temporally Contrastive Framework for TemporalRelation Extraction.
[May 2024] Invited talk at Goethe University Frankfurt.
[Mar 2024] Invited talk at AICamp Toronto. Slides: Dissecting Language Models to Understand Their Internal Workings.
[Jan 2024] Paper Accepted to ICLR 2024! Read more about our paper here: What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge?