Feifei Pan

About

Feifei Pan is a Senior Research Scientist at Walmart Global Tech. Previously, she held roles at Amazon Alexa AI and IBM Research. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research focuses on natural language processing (NLP) with a concentration in Generative AI, multimodal question answering (QA) over semi-structured data and large language model (LLM) applications. She is also passionate about applying machine learning (ML) and NLP to interdisciplinary fields, such as Martian mineral composition classification and the construction of geoscientific knowledge graphs.

Selected Publications

• “Multi-Row, Multi-Span Distant Supervision for Table+Text Question Answering” – ACL 2023
• “Capturing Row and Column Semantics in Transformer-Based Question Answering over Tables” – NAACL 2021
• “AIT-QA: Question Answering Dataset over Complex Tables in the Airline Industry” – NAACL 2021
• “CLTR: An End-to-End, Transformer-Based System for Cell-Level Table Retrieval and Table Question Answering” – ACL System Demonstrations, 2021
• “Ediacaran Biozones Identified with Network Analysis Provide Evidence for Pulsed Extinctions of Early Complex Life” – Nature Communications, 10(1), 911