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)
2025-26 Courses
- Human Centered NLP
CS 329X (Aut) - Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
CS 547 (Win) - NLP for Computational Social Science
CS 224C (Spr) - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
CS 224N, LINGUIST 284, SYMSYS 195N (Win) -
Independent Studies (13)
- Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499P (Aut, Win, Spr) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Project
CS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Project
CS 399P (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Work
CS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Work
CS 199P (Aut, Win, Spr) - Ph.D. Research Rotation
CME 391 (Spr) - Senior Project
CS 191 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Supervised Undergraduate Research
CS 195 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Writing Intensive Senior Research Project
CS 191W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Advanced Reading and Research
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Prior Year Courses
2024-25 Courses
- Human Centered NLP
CS 329X (Aut) - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
CS 224N, LINGUIST 284, SYMSYS 195N (Win)
2023-24 Courses
- NLP for Computational Social Science
CS 224C (Spr) - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
CS 224N, LINGUIST 284, SYMSYS 195N (Win)
2022-23 Courses
- Human Centered NLP
CS 329X (Spr) - NLP for Computational Social Science
CS 224C (Win)
- Human Centered NLP
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Matthew Joerke -
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Joachim Baumann, Ryan Louie, Vishakh Padmakumar, Hao Zhu -
Master's Program Advisor
Koa Chang, Andrew Chen, Clare Chua, Cody Ho, Laya Iyer, Ali Sartaz Khan, Ryan Lian, Enkhjin Munkhbayar, Nathan Paek, Aadesh Salecha, Evelyn Song, Esha Thapa, Jenny Wei, Tracy Wei, Lizzi Yin -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Jing Huang, Omar Shaikh, Chenglei Si, Dora Zhao -
Doctoral (Program)
Yijia Shao, John Yang, Caleb Ziems