Chenhao Tan

Associate Professor · UChicago Data Science Institute · University of Chicago

⭐ For all students who are interested in working with me, please check out this page. For official positions, as of fall 2025, you can apply to work with me through the UChicago Computer Science PhD program, the UChicago Data Science PhD program, the Data Science Institute Postdoctoral program (If you applied to the DSI postdoc program and mentioned me as an advisor, please send me an email because

Research interests

language and social dynamics, human-centered machine learning, multi-community engagement, computational social science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence

Selected publications (since 2023)

[Haokun Liu*, Yangqiaoyu Zhou*, Mingxuan Li*, Chenfei Yuan, and Chenhao Tan. Literature Meets Data: A Synergistic Approach to Hypothesis Generation. [Website]] [Yangqiaoyu Zhou, Haokun Liu, Tejes Srivastava, Hongyuan Mei, and Chenhao Tan. Hypothesis Generation with Large Language Models. NLP4Science workshop at EMNLP 2024.] [Ari Holtzman and Chenhao Tan. Prompting as Scientific Inquiry. NeurIPS 2025 (position papers track). [Blog]] [Xiaoyan Bai, Ike Peng, Aditya Singh, and Chenhao Tan. Concept Incongruence: An Exploration of Time and Death in Role Playing. NeurIPS 2025. [Blog]]

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