Rate My Professor Caren Han

Han has received the School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing Early-Career Research Award in 2023 from The University of Western Australia, along with the Google Research Award in 2024, Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award from 2018 to 2021 at the University of Sydney, Supervisor of the Year in 2021 at the University of Sydney, Best Area Paper Award at COLING 2022, and Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2020. Her key publications include "SynJAC: synthetic-data-driven joint-granular adaptation and calibration for domain specific scanned document key information extraction" (2026, Information Fusion), "ChuLo: Chunk-Level Key Information Representation for Long Document Understanding" (2025, Findings of ACL), "Graph-Based Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Chart Question Answering" (2025, SIGIR), "KIEPrompter: Leveraging Lightweight Models' Predictions for Cost-Effective Key Information Extraction using Vision LLMs" (2025, CIKM), and "MAGIC-VQA: Multimodal And Grounded Inference with Commonsense Knowledge for Visual Question Answering" (2025, Findings of ACL). With numerous publications in top conferences such as ACL, SIGIR, IJCAI, EMNLP, and AAAI, her work contributes significantly to advancements in multimodal learning and NLP applications. She is involved in projects like "ChatGEO: Forging Trust in Spatial Semantic Document Retrieval" at UWA.