Wanyu Du
I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at University of Virginia. I am advised by Professor Yangfeng Ji in the Information and Language Processing (ILP) Lab.
My research primarily focuses on developing controllable human-AI collaborative text generation systems, which comprise three components:
- Understanding User Intentions: designing user intention taxonomy to interpret user goals in various contexts (ACL2022, EMNLP2022).
- Controlling Text Generation: controlling the generation of LLMs through fine-tuning parameter-efficient modules (EMNLP2021), modeling variational context variables (ACL-WS2022), self-training (EMNLP2022) and reinforcement learning (EMNLP2019, 2023).
- Evaluating System Performance: incorporating user intentions into evaluation to provide more comphrensive performance analysis (ACL-WS2022, EMNLP2022).
In the past, I was fortunate to work with many amazing NLP researchers. I have worked with Song Feng, James Gung, Yi Zhang and Saab Mansour at AWS AI, Vipul Raheja and Dongyeop Kang at Grammarly, and Liwei Wang at Tencent AI Lab.
đź“Ł I am on the job market this year, please feel free to contact me if you are interested!
News
Nov 2023 | 🎙 New paper “Blending Reward Functions via Few Expert Demonstrations for Faithful and Accurate Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation” is out. [Paper] |
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May 2023 | đź—˝ Start my applied scientist internship at AWS AI. |
Oct 2022 | 🌟 3 papers accepted to EMNLP. |
Oct 2022 | 🎙 New paper “Self-training with Two-phase Self-augmentation for Few-shot Dialogue Generation” is out. [Paper][Code] |
Sep 2022 | 🏆 1 paper accepted to ACL, and 1 paper recieved the best paper award at ACL In2Writing Workshop! |
Apr 2022 | 🎙 New paper “Read, Revise, Repeat: A System Demonstration for Human-in-the-loop Iterative Text Revision” is out. [Paper][Code][Video][Demo] |
Mar 2022 | 🎙 New paper “Understanding Iterative Revision from Human-Written Text” is out. [Paper][Code][Video] |
Experiences
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI, Applied Scientist Intern, New York, 2023.05 - 2023.08
- Grammarly, Research Intern, Vancouver, 2021.06 - 2021.12
- Tencent AI Lab, Research Intern, Bellevue, 2020.06 - 2020.12
Selected publications
- EMNLP