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. I have 2 openings for self-motivated PhDs to work in the area of NLP for 2024 Fall, please consider applying directly or email me if you are interested in working with me.
I cannot advise more master’s students at UCR in 2023. Due to the high volume of requests, I won’t be able to respond to further emails on this matter.
PhD Thesis | Research Statement | 招生 |
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Natural language generation
- Automatic summarization
- Trustworthy and efficient AI
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)
Recent News
[11/2023] Thrilled our submission on VLM attack with Erfan Shayegani and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh won the Best Paper Award (3/155 papers) at the 2023 Southern California NLP Symposium!
[11/2023] Three papers on watermarking in LLMs, inverse RL for summarization, and VLM Jailbreak attacks have been accepted at the 2023 Southern California NLP Symposium. Excited!
[10/2023] Our paper “Subtle Misogyny Detection and Mitigation: An Expert-Annotated Dataset” has been accepted as a spotlight submission at NeurIPS 2023 SoLaR Workshop!
[10/2023] Check out the UCR news on Faculty members discuss AI’s possible impacts at UCR.
[10/2023] I am honored to serve as a senior area chair for NAACL 2024!
[10/2023] Our paper Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Text Summarization led by my PhD student Yu Fu has been accepted to the findings of EMNLP 2023. Congrats!
[10/2023] Our tutorial on Vulnerabilities of Large Language Models to Adversarial Attacks has been accepted for ACL 2024.
[07/2023] I was awarded a Regents Faculty Fellowship grant 2023-2024!
[06/2023] I was selected for UCR OASIS Internal Funding Awards 2023-2024!
[05/2023] Our proposal of KDD 2023 tutorial on Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models has been accepted
Students
Welcome to UCR NLP Lab!
Lab Members
Director
Yue Dong, assistant professor of computer science and engineering
PhD Students
Yu Fu, since Fall 2023
Zehao Wang (co-advise with Dr. Heng Yin), since Fall 2023
Erfan Shayegani (co-advise with Dr. Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh), since Summer 2023
Recent Publications
Recent Teachings
[Winter 2023] CS 260 - Seminar in Natural Language Processing
[Spring 2023] CS 173 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Recent Services
Co-organizer
NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-III)
KDD 2023 tutorial on Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models
EMNLP 2023 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-II)
EMNLP 2021 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
NeurIPS 2021 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing
NAACL 2022 tutorial on Text Generation with Text-Editing Models
Recent Talks
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
Recent Awards
Fundings:
Regents Faculty Fellowship grant, July 2023
UCR OASIS Internal Funding Awards, 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
Contact
- yue.dong[AT]ucr.edu
- Riverside, CA, USA
- DM Me