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

• FIRE-Bench: Evaluating Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights
  Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Zhongyan Luo, Jinyan Su, Kaser Sun, Xinle Yu, Jieyuan Liu, Kun Zhou, Claire Cardie, Mark Dredze, Eric P. Xing, Zhiting Hu
  arXiv 2026
  [blog] [paper] [code]
• LLMs are Better Than You Think: 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 2025
  [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]