Bai, Fan

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University, working with Prof. Mark Dredze.

I am actively pursuing a full-time industry position. If you know of any opportunities that might be a good fit, please feel free to reach out. I am excited to explore new possibilities.

Research Interests

• Advancing the understanding, development, and application of foundation models
• Driving scientific discovery through machine intelligence

Recent Papers

• Label-Guided In-Context Learning for Named Entity Recognition
  Fan Bai, Hamid Hassanzadeh, Ardavan Saeedi, Mark Dredze
  EMNLP 2025
  [paper] [code]
• What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen: The Disruptive Effect of Knowledge Conflict on Large Language Models
  Kaser Sun, Fan Bai, Mark Dredze
  arXiv
  [paper]
• Give me Some Hard Questions: Synthetic Data Generation for Clinical QA
  Fan Bai, Keith Harrigian, Joel Stremmel, Hamid Hassanzadeh, Ardavan Saeedi, Mark Dredze
  ML4H 2024 Findings
  [paper] [code] [poster]
• PromptAgent: Strategic Planning with Language Models Enables Expert-level Prompt Optimization
  Xinyuan Wang, Chenxi Li, Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Haotian Luo, Jiayou Zhang, Nebojsa Jojic, Eric P Xing, Zhiting Hu
  ICLR 2024
  [paper] [code]
• Schema-Driven Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Tables
  Fan Bai, Junmo Kang, Gabriel Stanovsky, Dayne Freitag, Alan Ritter
  EMNLP 2024 Findings
  [paper] [code]