Diji Yang

I’m currently a PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz working with Prof. Yi Zhang. I received my Master’s degree in Natural Language Processing and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Statistics from UC Santa Cruz. I’m fortunate to have joined Prof. Xin Eric Wang’s lab to focus on the NLP research.

Research Interest

My research interest lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Information Retrieval. I work on generative language models, knowledge reasoning, and applications such as multimodal question-answering and task-oriented dialogue systems.

Experience

∙ Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa
∙ AI Resident at Mineral Earth Sciences, an Alphabet company, previous Google[X] project, 2023
∙ Research Assistant for Natural Language Processing, 2021

News:

∙ [12/2023] Our paper Inner Monologue Multi-Modal Optimization is accepted by AAAI 2024

∙ [10/2023] Our paper Learning Inner Monologue is accepted by NeurIPS 2023 Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) workshop

∙ [03/2023] I am excited to be working as a part-time AI resident at Mineral

∙ [09/2022] Our paper CPL is accepted by EMNLP 2022

∙ [07/2021] I will (re)join UCSC as a Graduate student

Services:

Teaching assistant: Programming Abstractions 2022, Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing 2023
Reviewer: NeurIPS 2023, TheWebConf 2024