Kayo Yin
Personal Infoemail:
website:google scholar:

kayoyin@berkeley.edu
kayoyin.github.io
scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wc8oLVwAAAAJ

Education
Aug. 2022- Current

PhD in Computer Science
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
GPA: 3.9 (as of Summer 2024)
Advisor: Prof. Jacob Steinhardt and Prof. Dan Klein
ASL at Berkeley, Piano, Danceworx, Cal Hiking and Outdoors Society, Pointe of Berkeley

Sep. 2020-May. 2022

Master in Language Technologies
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
QPA: 4.0
Advisor: Prof. Graham Neubig
Graduate Student Representative, CMQ+ Board, Flute (AUO), Piano (CFA), Climbing Team, Bagpipes

Sep. 2017-Jun. 2020

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science
École Polytechnique, Paris, France
GPA: 4.2/4.0+, Summa Cum Laude
Thesis: Sign Language Translation with Transformers (A+)
Flute (OPS), Saxophone (Fanfare), Soprano (Ensemble Vocal), Women’s Soccer, VP of Origami Club, Caving

Study Abroad
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
GPA: 4.3/4.0+
Erhu (Chinese Orchestra), Piano Club, Harmonica Band, Martial Arts Club, Buddhist Club

Sep. 2013-Jun. 2016

Certificat d’Études MusicalesConservatoire Frédéric Chopin, Paris, France
Mention Très Bien
Major: Flute & Solfège, Minor: Opera, Classical Ballet, Tap Dance

Work Experience
May. 2023- Aug. 2023

Research Intern at Microsoft Research, New York

Jun. 2022- Oct. 2022

Research Intern at DeepMind, London

Jun. 2020- Sep. 2020

Research Intern at La Javaness, Paris

Jan. 2020- Apr. 2020

Thesis Research Intern at Laboratoire Informatique de l’X, Paris

Sep. 2019- Jan. 2020

Research Scientist at Illuin Technology, Paris

Jun. 2019- Aug. 2019

Research Intern at Illuin Technology, Paris

With Danielle Bragg, Hal Daumé III, Alex Lu, Cyril Zhang.
ASL STEMpedia, automatic sign suggestion.

Language team, with Chris Dyer.
Sign language generation.

Meta-pseudo labeling.

Data Science and Mining (DaSciM) team, with Prof. Jesse Read.
Sign language translation.

Unsupervised question answering (QA) in French.

Denoising scanned documents for OCR, medical imagery analysis, unsupervised question answering.

Publications* = equal contribution
ASL STEM Wiki: Dataset and Benchmark for Interpreting STEM Articles
K. Yin, C. Singh, FO Minakov, V. Milan, H. Daumé III, C. Zhang, AX Lu, D. Bragg
2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). November 2024.
Using Language Models to Disambiguate Lexical Choices in Translation
J. Barua, S. Subramanian, K. Yin, A. Suhr2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). November 2024.
American Sign Language Handshapes Reflect Pressures for Communicative Efficiency
K. Yin, T. Regier, D. Klein
62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). August 2024.
When Does Translation Require Context? A Data-driven, Multilingual Exploration Best ResourcePaper
P. Fernandes*, K. Yin*, E. Liu, A. Martins, G. Neubig
61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). July 2023.
Interpreting Language Models with Contrastive Explanations Best Paper Runner-Up
K. Yin, G. Neubig
2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). December 2022.
Signed Coreference Resolution
K. Yin, K. DeHaan, M. Alikhani.
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). November 2021.
When is Wall a Pared and when a Muro?: Extracting Rules Governing Lexical Selection
A. Chaudhary, K. Yin, A. Anastasopoulos, G. Neubig.
2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). November 2021.
Data Augmentation for Sign Language Gloss Translation
A. Moryossef*, K. Yin*, G. Neubig, Y. Goldberg
18th Biennial Machine Translation Summit (MTSummit) 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translationfor Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL). August 2021.
Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing Best Theme Paper
K. Yin, A. Moryossef, J. Hochgesang, Y. Goldberg, M. Alikhani.
59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). August 2021.
Do Context-Aware Translation Models Pay the Right Attention?
K. Yin, P. Fernandes, D. Pruthi, A. Chaudhary, A. Martins, G. Neubig
59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). August 2021.
Measuring and Increasing Context Usage in Context-Aware Machine Translation
P. Fernandes, K. Yin, G. Neubig, A. Martins
59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). August 2021.
Better Sign Language Translation with STMC-Transformer Global Undergraduate AwardK. Yin, J. Read.
28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). December 2020.

Teaching
Fall 2024

CS288 Natural Language Processing

Selected Awards
2023
2023-2027
2022
2022-2023
2021-2022
2021
2020-2022
2020
2015
2012

Best Resource Paper at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Future of Life PhD Fellowship.
Best Paper Runner-Up at Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Berkeley Fellowship.
Siebel Scholarship.
Best Theme Paper at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
CMU Research Fellowship.
Global Winner in Computer Science at the Global Undergraduate Awards.
Gold Medal Concours Kangourou des Mathématiques (rank 6/13011).
Gold Medal Concours Kangourou des Mathématiques (rank 5/53937).

Invited Talks• Natural Language Processing for Signed Languages
DeepMind, University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago & TTI-Chicago, Sony CSL, UniversitéLaval (version française), EPFL, University of Melbourne, NLP コロキウム (日本語)• Interpreting Language Models with Contrastive Explanations
University of Melbourne, KUNGFU.AI• Understanding, Improving and Evaluating Context Usage in Context-aware Translation
Unbabel, IT University of Copenhagen, SIGTYP• Including Signed Languages in NLPIJCAI, NLP Highlights (podcast episode)• Sign Language Translation with Transformers
Computer Vision Talks, The Global Undergraduate Summit

Press & Interviews
Jan. 2022
Oct. 2021
Sep. 2021
Aug. 2021
Aug. 2021
Oct. 2020
Sep. 2020
May. 2020
Dec. 2019Feb. 2019
Jun. 2018

Student Spotlight: Kayo Yin, The LinkAlumni Stories: Kayo Yin, Class of 2017, Jeannine Manuel Alumni
Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars, CMU SCS
LTI Master’s Student Urges NLP Focus on Signed Languages, CMU SCSLTI Student Wins Best Theme Paper at ACL-IJCNLP 2021, CMU LTI
Bachelor of Science Alumni - Kayo at Carnegie Mellon University, École Polytechnique
Kayo Yin wins the 2020 Global Undergraduate Awards, École Polytechnique
Testimony: Kayo Yin, BX2020 Maths/Computer Science Student, École Polytechnique
Meet Kayo Yin, Bachelor Student, Women in Science
Meet our students - Kayo Yin, École Polytechnique
Kayo Yin, One-Woman Band, A Lifetime of ScienceAcademic Service• NeurIPS Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modeling Research, Organizer 2024
• ICML Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability, Organizer 2024
• NeurIPS, Reviewer 2024
• ICLR, Reviewer 2024
• ACL Rolling Review, Reviewer 2022, 2023, 2024
• MTSummit, Reviewer 2021
• TransportiX Hackathon, Mentor 2021
• French Tournament of Young Mathematicians (TFJM2 ), Jury 2020

Civic Engagement2022-2024
2020-2022
2020-2022
2021-2022
2020-2021
2018-20202018-20192017-20202017-20202017-2020

Organizer, NLP with Friends
Graduate Student Representative, CMU Graduate Student Assembly
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, CMU Graduate Student Assembly
Mentor, CMU LTI Graduate Student Mentorship Program
Social Chair, CMQ+ (CMU Graduate LGBTQ+ Association)
Outreach Officer, L’Action Sociale de la Kès (Polytechnique Humanitarian Association)
Organizer, Polytechnique Mental Health Awareness Week
Communications Officer, Développement Durable à l’X (Polytechnique Sustainable Development Society)
Board Member, XY (Polytechnique LGBTQ+ Association)
Member, X au Féminin (Polytechnique Women’s Society)Languages
Natural Languages: Japanese (Native), French (Native), English (Fluent), Mandarin (HSK 4), American
Sign Language (ASL 3)
Programming Languages: Python, C++, Coq
Last updated October 14, 2024