
Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Bio
Diyi Yang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. Professor Yang's research interests are Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. Her research goal is to understand the social aspects of language and then build socially aware NLP systems to better support human-human and human-computer interaction. Professor Yang received her PhD from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and her bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her work has received multiple best paper nominations or awards at ICWSM, EMNLP, SIGCHI, ACL, and CSCW. She is a recipient of Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, IEEE “AI 10 to Watch”, the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, and NSF CAREER Award.
Honors & Awards
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NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2022)
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Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, Georgia Tech (2022)
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Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, Forbes (2021)
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Intel Rising Star Award, Intel (2021)
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Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, Microsoft (2021)
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Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, Samsung (2021)
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IEEE AI's 10 to Watch, IEEE (2020)
2022-23 Courses
- NLP for Computational Social Science
CS 224C (Win) -
Independent Studies (4)
- Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499 (Aut, Win) - Independent Project
CS 399 (Aut, Win) - Senior Project
CS 191 (Win) - Supervised Undergraduate Research
CS 195 (Win)
- Advanced Reading and Research
Stanford Advisees
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Orals Evaluator
Lantao Yu -
Master's Program Advisor
Cody Ho, Eric Lou, Jessica-Alexis Okafor, Carolyn Qu