CV

Contact Information

Name Cassie Huang
Email Cassie.Huang@drexel.edu
Location Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Research Experience

  • 2024 - present

    Philadelphia, PA

    PhD Student
    Drexel University
    • Lead two complete research projects involving collaboration across institutions, resulting in NLP publications.
    • Leverage LLMs to auto-formalize complex reasoning and planning problems.
    • Evaluate LLM-as-formalizer in realistic planning tasks with constrained environments.
  • 2023 - 2024

    Philadelphia, PA

    Student Researcher
    University of Pennsylvania
    • Extract interpretable lexical and stylistic features for authorship attribution.
    • Fine-tune BERT Sentence Transformers for embedding-based analysis.
  • 2019 - 2019

    Boston, MA

    Student Researcher
    Boston University
    • Studied ambiguity in natural language annotations using tracking datasets.
    • Designed MTurk experiments using HTML.

Education

  • 2025 - present

    Philadelphia, PA

    PhD
    Drexel University
    Computer Science
    • Advisor: Li “Harry” Zhang
    • GPA: 4.00/4.00
  • 2022 - 2024

    Philadelphia, PA

    Master of Science in Engineering
    University of Pennsylvania
    Computer and Information Science
    • GPA: 3.63/4.00
  • 2018 - 2022

    Boston, MA

    Bachelor of Arts
    Boston University
    Mathematics and Computer Science
    • GPA: 3.93/4.00 (summa cum laude)
    • Dean’s List (Fall 2018 - Fall 2021)
    • Thomas M. Menino Scholarship Recipient

Teaching

  • Course Assistant, CS237: Probability in Computing, Boston University, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
  • Teaching Assistant, CIS5210: Artificial Intelligence , University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
  • Teaching Assistant, CIS5200: Machine Learning, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2024
  • Teaching Assistant, CIS5300: Natural Language Processing, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2024, Spring 2025
  • Teaching Assistant, CS-T780: Applied NLP, Drexel University, Spring 2025
  • Guest Lecture, CS614 and CS-T780, Drexel University, Spring 2026