Lucy Lu Wang

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Allen Library 199D

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98105


Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington
Adjunct, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Adjunct, Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education
Adjunct, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
 

Hello and welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School, where I lead the Language Accessibility Research (LARCH) lab. You can find a list of our publications here.

I am an NLP and health informatics researcher, studying how to design and build language technologies to improve access to and understanding of information, especially in high-expertise domains like science and healthcare. My work has resulted in techniques and tools to improve access to scholarly content, synthesize scientific evidence, and support people to make better decisions about their health.

Curriculum vitae: PDF

 

select recent publications

  1. What About My Design Context? Exploring the Use of Generative AI to Support Customization of Translational Research Artifacts
    Donghoon Shin, Tze-Yu Chen, Gary Hsieh, and Lucy Lu Wang
    DIS Jul 2025
  2. Passing the Buck to AI: How Individuals’ Decision-Making Patterns Affect Reliance on AI
    Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Rock Yuren Pang, Alex Lyford, Lucy Lu Wang, and Katharina Reinecke
    May 2025
  3. Know Your Limits: A Survey of Abstention in Large Language Models
    Bingbing Wen, Jihan Yao, Shangbin Feng, Chenjun Xu, Yulia Tsvetkov, Bill Howe, and Lucy Lu Wang
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) May 2025
  4. Varying Shades of Wrong: Aligning LLMs with Wrong Answers Only
    Jihan Yao, Wenxuan Ding, Shangbin Feng, Lucy Lu Wang, and Yulia Tsvetkov
    ICLR Apr 2025
  5. APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization
    Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, and Lucy Lu Wang
    EMNLP Nov 2024
  6. Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs: Publishing Model and Platform Changes Contribute to Declining Scholarly Document Accessibility in the Last Decade
    Anukriti Kumar, and Lucy Lu Wang
    ASSETS Oct 2024
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