Diyi Yang

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group, Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). I am interested in Socially Aware Natural Language Processing. My research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction.

Prospective students and postdocs, please check out this page on how to get involved.

Recent Projects

Continually Learning with Limited Text Data: [ACL 2022], [ACL 2020]
Dialect Robust Language Understanding and Adaptation: [VALUE], [Multi-VALUE], [TADA], [DADA]
Socially Responsible NLP: [EMNLP 2021a], [CSCW 2021a], [AAAI 2020]
Language and Social Factors (e.g., framing, persuasion, humor): [NAACL 2021b], [NAACL 2019], [EMNLP 2015]
Human-Centered NLP for Social Impact (e.g., mental health): [CSCW 2022], [SIGCHI 2019]

Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department at Stanford, 2022.9 - Present
Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, 2019.8 - 2022.8
Ph.D., Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 2013 - 2019
B.S., ACM Honored Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2009 - 2013

Senior Area Chair, ACL, 2023
Area Chair, ICLR 2023
Senior Area Chair, EMNLP, 2023, 2022
General Chair, ICWSM 2022
Ethics Chair, NAACL 2022
Senior Area Chair, ACL, 2022
Area Chair, NeurIPS 2022
Area Chair, ICLR 2022
Associate Chair, CHI 2022
Action Editor, ACL Rolling Review
Student Volunteer Coordinator and Scholarship Chair, EMNLP 2021
Area Chair, EMNLP 2021, Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
Area Chair, ACL 2021, Computational Social Science and Social Media
Senior Area Chair, NAACL 2021, Sentiment Analysis and Stylistic Analysis
Area Chair, AKBC 2021, AI Fairness
Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2021

05/2023 Talk at Trustworthy and Reliable Large-Scale Machine Learning Models workshop at ICLR
03/2023 Talk at Data Science/Computational Social Science Seminar, University of Michigan
03/2023 Talk at Max Planck Institute
02/2023 Talk at Responsible AI seminars, Nokia Bell Labs
02/2023 Talk at Creative AI Workshop, AAAI
02/2023 Talk at National Research Council Canada
01/2023 Panelist at NIST TAC Workshop
12/2022 Talk at AI Quorum Symposia, MBZUAI
11/2022 Roundtable on Promoting Fairness in AI, Asia Society
10/2022 Talk at IBM Almaden NLP Seminar
10/2022 Talk at Tsinghua University
08/2022 Talk at University of Pittsburgh
07/2022 Invited Talk at the 2nd Bridging HCI and NLP Workshop @ NAACL
07/2022 Invited Talk at the 2nd Trustworthy NLP Workshop @ NAACL
05/2022 Talk at the Spotlight Talks by Young Rising Stars at ACL 2022
05/2022 Talk at Intel
04/2022 Talk at CMU K-12 Summit on AI for Social Good
04/2022 Keynote Talk at the Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing Workshop @ ICLR
04/2022 Talk at the Socially Responsible Machine Learning Workshop @ ICLR
04/2022 Talk at ML Seminar at Vanderbilt University
02/2022 Talk at NLP Seminar at University of California Santa Barbara
02/2022 Talk at University of Maryland