Undergraduate Honors 2026

Four undergraduate students from Emory NLP earned their degrees with honors:

Henry Gao

• Highest Honor in Computer Science
• Thesis: Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data

Yutong Hu

• Highest Honor in Computer Science
• Thesis: Beyond Text: LLM-Based Dimensional Emotion Evaluation in Multimodal Dialogue

Michelle Kim

• Highest Honor in Computer Science
• Thesis: Leveraging Large Language Models for Loneliness Detection and Analysis

Noah Reicin

• Highest Honor in Computer Science
• Thesis: Stress Testing Instruction Following in Large Language Models