Danqi Chen

Danqi Chen (, IPA: [ ʈ͡ʂʰə̌n tan t͡ɕʰǐ]; born in Changsha, China) is a Chinese computer scientist and assistant professor at Princeton University specializing in the AI field of natural language processing (NLP). In 2019, she joined the Princeton NLP group, alongside Sanjeev Arora, Christiane Fellbaum, and Karthik Narasimhan. She was previously a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University and her BS from Tsinghua University.

Her primary research interests are in text understanding and knowledge representation and reasoning.

She won a gold medal at the 2008 International Informatics Olympiad. She is known among friends as CDQ.

She is married to Huacheng Yu, an assistant professor in theoretical computer science at Princeton University.