Hi, I am Yue (/yoo-eh/) Dong, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at McGill University and Mila, supervised by Dr. Jackie Cheung. I was fortunate to intern at Google AI, AI2, Microsoft, and Noah’s Ark Lab during my PhD.
My research interests include natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. I lead the Natural Language Processing group at UCR, which develops natural language understanding and generation systems that are controllable, trustworthy, and efficient.
Prospective Students (Updated on March, 2024): Thank you for your interest! I have 2 co-advised openings for self-motivated PhD candidates in the field of NLP+RL/theory and NLP+CV/robotics for Winter 2025 or Fall 2024. If you are interested in working with me, please fill out the UCRNLP PhD application form to highlight your potential in ML/NLP research and to assess the alignment with my research interests. Please understand that I will only respond to PhD email inquiries accompanied by a completed form submission due to the large amount of emails.
PhD Thesis | Research Statement | 招生 |
PhD in Computer Science , 2022
McGill University
MSc & BSc in Mathematics, 2016
University of Ottawa
Clinical Medicine, 2009
Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学)
[3/2023] I am honored to serve as a senior area chair for EMNLP 2024.
[3/2024] Our paper Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Question Answering with Masked Self-training has been accepted at TACL 2024.
[2/2024] My PhD students Yu Fu (1st year) and Erfan Shayegani (2nd year) will be interning at Microsoft Research this summer. Congrats!
[1/2024] Our paper Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models has been accepted into ICLR 24 as a spotlight (5% of papers, acc. 31% ), Congrats! This paper also featured on UCR news.
[12/2023] Our paper Watermarking Conditional Text Generation for AI Detection: Unveiling Challenges and a Semantic-Aware Watermark Remedy, led by my PhD student Yu Fu, has been accepted into AAAI 24 (an overall acceptance rate of 23.75%),
[11/2023] Thrilled our submission on VLM attack with Erfan Shayegani and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh won the Best Paper Award (3/155 papers) at the 2023 Southern California NLP Symposium!
[10/2023] Our paper “Subtle Misogyny Detection and Mitigation: An Expert-Annotated Dataset” has been accepted as a spotlight (2/all submissions) at NeurIPS 2023 SoLaR Workshop.
[10/2023] Check out the UCR news on Faculty members discuss AI’s possible impacts at UCR.
[10/2023] I am honored to serve as a senior area chair for NAACL 2024.
[10/2023] Our paper Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Text Summarization led by my PhD student Yu Fu has been accepted to the findings of EMNLP 2023.
Yue Dong, assistant professor of computer science and engineering
Yu Fu, since Fall 2023
Zehao Wang (co-advise with Prof. Heng Yin), since Fall 2023
Erfan Shayegani (co-advise with Prof. Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh), since Summer 2023
Haz Sameen Shahgir, incoming Fall 2024
[Winter 2024] CS 222 - Natural Language Processing
[Spring 2023] CS 173 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing
[Winter 2023] CS 260 - Seminar in Natural Language Processing
NeurIPS 2023 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-III)
KDD 2023 tutorial on Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models
EMNLP 2023 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-II)
EMNLP 2021 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization
NeurIPS 2021 workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing
NAACL 2022 tutorial on Text Generation with Text-Editing Models
[11/2023] Exploring Safety in Large Language Models YouTube 40:30 mins | News
[11/04/2023] AI and Large Language Models
[08/2023] Fast Text Generation with Text-Editing Models
Regents Faculty Fellowship grant, July 2023
UCR OASIS Internal Funding Awards, June 2023
Best Paper Award, Southern California NLP Symposium, 2023
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS D) - Accepted, 2018-2019
[ Best Paper Award ] at Canadian conference on artificial intelligence
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS D) - Accepted, 2017-2018
FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship - Declined (rank first in all 2016 applicants in mathematics), 2016
FRQNT Master’s Research Scholarship, 2016
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - CGS Master’s, 2015
University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, 2015 - 2016
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), Summer 2014
Dean’s Merit Scholarships - Faculty of Science, University of Ottawa, 2014
University of Ottawa Women’s Summer Research Award, Summer 2013
University of Ottawa Work/Study Research Award, Summer 2012
First prize in mathematics competition in Shaanxi province, China, 2008