Welcome to the Field Lab! We are a research group at the Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing. Our research sits at the intersection of natural language processing, social science, and ethics, with the broader goal of developing solutions to mitigate harms in technologies with societal impact, and critically examining how AI systems are developed and deployed.
News
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August 27, 2025
Congratulations to Mian, Pristina, and Zihao on having their papers accepted to EMNLP 2025!
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August 25, 2025
We’re excited to welcome 3 new PhD students— Zihao, Jonathan, and Cole— as well as a new postdoc, Katie, to our lab!
People
Faculty
Anjalie Field
Graduate Students
(Robert) Cole Molloy
Jonathan Ivey
Co-advisor: Ziang Xiao
Krithika Ramesh
Mian Zhong
Zihao Zhao
Co-advisor: Yinzhi Cao
Master Students
Sandesh Rangreji
Yaxuan Ren
Postdocs
Katherine Van Koevering
Collaborators
Kaavya C
PhD @ JHU
Alumni
Pristina Wang
MS @ JHU -> Amazon
Moksh Shukla
MS @ JHU -> American Express
Pulkit Madaan
MS @ JHU -> Google
Taryn Wong
MS @ JHU
Rojin Ziaei
UG @ UMD -> Capital One
Jamie Rosas-Smith
PhD @ JHU
Publications
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Controlled Generation for Private Synthetic Text.
EMNLP, 2025. |
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HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs.
EMNLP, 2025. |
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From Queries to Criteria: Understanding How Astronomers Evaluate LLMs.
COLM, 2025. |
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Violence against women and girls research: Leveraging gains across disciplines.
PNAS (Perspective), 2025. |
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Constructing Datasets From Public Police Body Camera Footage.
ICASSP, 2025. |
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| 2024 |
pathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy.
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2024. |
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Evaluating Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation in High-Stakes Domains.
EMNLP (Findings), 2024. |
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Locating Information Gaps and Narrative Inconsistencies Across Languages: A Case Study of LGBT People Portrayals on Wikipedia.
EMNLP, 2024. |