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I am a Research Specialist leading the Algorithm & Framework Team at the Research Center for High-Efficiency Computing Systems, Zhejiang Lab (之江实验室). Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Meta where I worked at the Messaging Product ML Team to improve user engagement on Messenger and Instagram.

I obtained my Master's and Ph.D. degrees in 2017 and 2019 respectively from the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. During my Ph.D., I was affiliated with the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab which is a part of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). I was fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Philip Resnik and Prof. Jordan Boyd-Graber. I worked on topic models, Bayesian methods, computational linguistics, and computational social science.

I earned my Bachelor's degree in 2013 from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. In Summer 2012, I was an undergraduate visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University.

[Curriculum Vitae]

 

Publications

A Multilingual Topic Model for Learning Weighted Topic Links Across Corpora with Low Comparability
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019, Hong Kong SAR, China
[PDF] [Supplement] [Video] [Slides] [Code] [Bibtex]

Adapting Topic Models using Lexical Associations with Tree Priors
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
[PDF] [Poster] [Code] [Bibtex]

Uncovering Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: The Case of Ferguson
Lingzi Hong, Weiwei Yang, Philip Resnik, and Vanessa Frias-Martinez
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA
[PDF] [Code] [Bibtex]

A Discriminative Topic Model using Document Network Structure
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016, Berlin, Germany
[PDF] [Supplement] [Slides] [Code] [Bibtex]

Birds of a Feather Linked Together: A Discriminative Topic Model using Link-based Priors
Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Philip Resnik
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
[PDF] [Supplement] [Poster] [Code] [Bibtex]

Contact

Address:
1 Kechuang Ave, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 311121, P.R. China
浙江省杭州市余杭区科创大道1号

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Name Pronounciation

  • Weiwei: Way-Way
  • Yang: Young

 

 

Last Update: February 19, 2024