Yue Dong

Yue Dong

Assistant Professor

University of California, Riverside

Hi, I am Yue (/yoo-eh/) Dong, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at McGill University and Mila, supervised by Dr. Jackie Cheung. I was fortunate to intern at Google AI, AI2, Microsoft, and Noah’s Ark Lab during my PhD.

My research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. I lead the Natural Language Processing group at UCR, which develops natural language understanding and generation systems that are controllable, trustworthy, and efficient.

Prospective Students (Updated on March, 2024): Thank you for your interest! I have 2 co-advised openings for self-motivated PhD candidates in the field of NLP+RL/theory and NLP+CV/robotics for Winter 2025 or Fall 2024. If you are interested in working with me, please fill out the UCRNLP PhD application form to highlight your potential in ML/NLP research and to assess the alignment with my research interests. Please understand that I will only respond to PhD email inquiries accompanied by a completed form submission due to the large amount of emails.

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Interests
  • Machine learning
  • Natural language processing
  • Natural language generation
  • Automatic summarization
  • Trustworthy and efficient AI
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science , 2022

    McGill University

  • MSc & BSc in Mathematics, 2016

    University of Ottawa

  • Clinical Medicine, 2009

    Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学)

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Yue Dong, assistant professor of computer science and engineering

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Recent Publications

(2023). Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Text Summarization. Findings of Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP).

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(2022). Faithful to the Document or to the World? Mitigating Hallucinations via Entity-linked Knowledge in Abstractive Summarization. Findings of Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP).

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(2022). Learning with Rejection for Abstractive Text Summarization. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Invited talks

  • [11/2023] Exploring Safety in Large Language Models YouTube 40:30 mins | News

    • 80th Annual Convention of Jiaotong University Alumni Association in SoCal (交通大学南加州校友会80周年庆), Los Angeles, CA, US
  • [11/04/2023] AI and Large Language Models

    • UCR Family Day/Homecoming seminar, Riverside CA, US
  • [08/2023] Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models

    • KDD Tutorial, Long Beach, CA, US

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Fundings:

  • UTCRS, Co-PI, June 2024

  • Regents Faculty Fellowship grant, PI, July 2023

  • UCR OASIS Internal Funding Awards, PI, June 2023

Academic Awards:

  • Best Paper Award, Southern California NLP Symposium, 2023

  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS D) - Accepted, 2018-2019

  • [ Best Paper Award ] at Canadian conference on artificial intelligence

  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS D) - Accepted, 2017-2018

  • FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship - Declined (rank first in all 2016 applicants in mathematics), 2016

  • FRQNT Master’s Research Scholarship, 2016

  • NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - CGS Master’s, 2015

  • University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, 2015 - 2016

  • NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), Summer 2014

  • Dean’s Merit Scholarships - Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, 2014

  • University of Ottawa Women’s Summer Research Award, Summer 2013

  • University of Ottawa Work/Study Research Award, Summer 2012

  • First prize in mathematics competition in Shaanxi province, China, 2008

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