CV
Contact Information
| Name | Cassie Huang |
| Cassie.Huang@drexel.edu | |
| Location | Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA |
Research Experience
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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.
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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.
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2019 - 2019 Boston, MA
Student Researcher
Boston University
- Studied ambiguity in natural language annotations using tracking datasets.
- Designed MTurk experiments using HTML.
Education
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2025 - present Philadelphia, PA
PhD
Drexel University
Computer Science
- Advisor: Li “Harry” Zhang
- GPA: 4.00/4.00
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2022 - 2024 Philadelphia, PA
Master of Science in Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Computer and Information Science
- GPA: 3.63/4.00
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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
Publications
Service
- Reviewer, COLM 2025 Workshop AIA
- Reviewer, ACL ARR January 2026
- Reviewer, ACL 2026 Workshop SURGeLLM
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