Jin Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education
- Brandeis University Waltham, M.A.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2026
- Dissertation: Event-Centric Computational Framing Analysis
- Committee: Nianwen Xue, James Pustejovsky, Constantine Lignos, Julia Mendelsohn
- M.S. in Computational Linguistics 2020 - Brandeis University Waltham, MA
- M.S.Ed. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2015 - University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
- B.A. in English 2013 - Sichuan University Chengdu, China
Publications and Media Placements
Jin Zhao, Jiayi Yao, Xinrui Hu, and Nianwen Xue. 2026. Reframing Responsibility: Framing-Aware
Event Causality Identification. In Proceedings of ACL 2026.
Jin Zhao, Xinrui Hu, and Nianwen Xue. 2025. Seeing the Same Story Differently: Framing-Divergent
Event Coreference for Computational Framing Analysis. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2025.
Jin Zhao, Jingxuan Tu, Bingyang Ye, Xinrui Hu, Nianwen Xue, and James Pustejovsky.
2025. Beyond Benchmarks: Building a Richer Cross-Document Event Coreference Dataset
with Decontextualization. In Proceedings of NAACL 2025. Oral Presentation.
Jin Zhao, Jingxuan Tu, Han Du, and Nianwen Xue. 2024. Media Attitude Detection via
Framing Analysis with
Events and their Relations. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2024
Honors and Awards
Commencement Speaker, Brandeis University, 2026
Community Work and Service
- Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models
- Computational Semantics and Event-Centric Reasoning
- Computational Framing, Narrative, and Public Discourse Analysis
- Causal Reasoning; Trustworthy and Interpretable AI.Speaker, “Science Pizza Talk” Series,
Waltham High School (Brandeis MRSEC Outreach)
- English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher, Garces Family Foundation, Philadelphia
- Chinese as a Second Language Teacher, University of Pennsylvania