Yufei Tian
Welcome! I am a CS PhD student at UCLA, under the supervision of Professor Nanyun Peng. My research interest lies in natural language processing and its connection with the real world (both socially and physically). I'm currently working on knowledge enhanced text generation and creative language generation. I graduated from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University.Education
University of California, Los Angeles USA • 2021 — Present
Ph.D. student at CS DepartmentUniversity of Southern California, USA • 2020 — 2021
Ph.D. student at CS DepartmentTsinghua University, China • 2016 — 2020
Bachelor of Engineering, Minor in FinanceNanyang Technological University, Singapore • Fall 2018
Exchange student at CSE DepartmentPreprints and Publications
Paraphrase Generation as Unsupervised Machine Translation
Chun Fan, Yufei Tian, Yuxian Meng, Nanyun Peng, Xiaofei Sun, Fei Wu, Jiwei Li. PreprintHypoGen - Hyperbole Generation with Commonsense and Counterfactual Knowledge
Yufei Tian, Arvind krishna Sridhar, and Nanyun Peng. Findings of EMNLP 2021Identifying Cultural Differences through Multi-Lingual Wikipedia
Yufei Tian, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Fred Morstatter, and Nanyun Peng. SocialNLP@NAACL2021CAN-SIN A Cross-Layer Heterogeneous Academic Network with Semantic Information
Yufei Tian, Hong Hu, Yuejiang Li, H. Vicky Zhao, and Yan Chen. APSIPA 2020Aspect and Opinion Aware Abstractive Review Summarization with Reinforced Hard Typed Decoder
Yufei Tian, Jianfei Yu and Jing Jiang. CIKM 2019Experience
Shannon AI, NLP Intern • Jul 2020 — Oct 2020
Worked on paraphrase generation via domain adaptation. Advisor: Jiwei LiInformation Science Institute, USC, Research Assistant • Jul 2019 — Sep 2019
Worked on identifying perspectives of colingual groups through multi-lingual wikipedia. Advisor: Nanyun Peng and Fred MorstatterSingapore Management University, Research Assistant • Aug 2018 — Dec 2018
Worked on abstractive review summarization with typed decoders. Advisor: Jing JiangHonors
2021, George Bekey Fellow
USC Viterbi fellowship top-off, from the George Bekey Graduate Fellowship Fund2019, Dengfeng Scholarship
top 2% awarded for distinction in Information Technology2015, Intel Outstanding Award on Computer Science
awarded by Intel Corporation at CASTIC (top 2/1500 = 0.0013%)Miscellaneous
Classical Music - I was a french horn player in the awesome and long-established Tsinghua University Symphonic Band. Check our website to learn more!
Sports - I have been playing tennis for over 10 years. Besides, I was the keeper of Tsinghua University Women Cricket Team in 2018 when we won a runner-up in Beijing!
Social Links
- Github: https://github.com/NinaTian98369
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/yufei_t
- Website: https://yufeitian.github.io/website/