Danqi Chen

Danqi Chen (simplified Chinese: 陈丹琦; traditional Chinese: 陳丹琦; pinyin: Chén Dānqí, IPA: [ʈ͡ʂʰə̌n tan t͡ɕʰi]; born in Changsha, China) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and assistant professor at Princeton University specializing in the AI field of NLP. In 2019, she recently joined the Princeton NLP group, alongside Sanjeev Arora, Christiane Fellbaum, Karthik Narasimhan. She is currently visiting Facebook AI Research. She earned her Ph.D at Stanford University and her BS from Tsinghua University.

Chen is the author of Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond, a book on using artificial intelligence to access knowledge in ordinary and structured documents. She is the author or co-author of a number of journal articles, including Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions.

She won a gold medal at the International Informatics Olympiad. She is known among friends as CDQ. A well known algorithm in competitive programming, CDQ Divide and Conquer, is named after this acronym.