Haozhe An

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I don't like haze, as the anagram of my name suggests, "Ah, noHaze!"

Email: haozhe@umd.edu

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I’m a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am advised by Prof. Rachel Rudinger.

I obtained my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego with Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 3.987/4.0) in 2019.

Full CV is available upon request.

I am seeking full-time opportunities starting in Summer 2025 or later. If my research and skills align with your team’s needs, please reach out!

Research Interests

My research aims to understand and mitigate the problems of bias and fairness in NLP models. My current research projects typically involve the empirical evaluations of large language models and algorithm designs to enhance fairness in natural language understanding and generation.

Selected Publications

“On the Influence of Gender and Race in Romantic Relationship Prediction from Large Language Models.”
Haozhe An*, Abhilasha Sancheti*, Rachel Rudinger. EMNLP 2024.
* Equal contributions
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“Susu Box or Piggy Bank: Assessing Cultural Commonsense Knowledge between Ghana and the US.”
Christabel Acquaye, Haozhe An, Rachel Rudinger. EMNLP 2024.
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“Do Large Language Models Discriminate in Hiring Decisions on the Basis of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender?”
Haozhe An, Christabel Acquaye, Colin Wang, Zongxia Li, Rachel Rudinger. ACL 2024.
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“Nichelle and Nancy: The Influence of Demographic Attributes and Tokenization Length on First Name Biases.”
Haozhe An, Rachel Rudinger. ACL 2023.
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“SODAPOP: Open-Ended Discovery of Social Biases in Social Commonsense Reasoning Models.”
Haozhe An, Zongxia Li, Jieyu Zhao, Rachel Rudinger. EACL 2023.
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“Learning Bias-reduced Word Embeddings Using Dictionary Definitions.”
Haozhe An, Xiaojiang Liu, Jian Zhang. Findings of ACL 2022.
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Honors and Awards

Life is more enjoyable with…

Learning languages

Traveling

I love traveling to different places with my family and friends. There are uncountable elements in these trips that make them memorable: The unforgettable experience of seeing an amazing and unique glacier landscape in El Calafate, Argentina, the fun conversations with people from all over the world in the desert of Morocco, the stupid and embarrassing cultural mistakes I made while transiting in Netherlands, the scrumptious Ichiran ramen I had multiple times with my Singaporean friends in Japan…

potatochips I was at Potato Chip Rock in San Diego.

I also enjoy having road trips. It was a great experience driving along Route 66 from Chicago all the way to Los Angeles with my greatest clique ever. Drving from San Francisco to Los Angeles on California State 1 with some of my best high school friends was another awesome trip.

One really important thing: Thanks to my parents who have been generously supporting me to travel around the world and open my eyes!

Here is a map of the countries that I have visited. map

I have visited: China (Of course - I’m from here), Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, United States, Germany, Austria, Morocco

Reading

Here is a list of books I particularly enjoyed reading.

I read them in English:

I read them in Mandarin Chinese: