Diyi Yang
Diyi Yang is a Chinese computer scientist and assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing. Her research combines linguistics and social sciences with machine learning to address social problems like online harassment, as well as user-centered text generation and learning with limited data. Biography. Diyi Yang attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University for her undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in July of 2013. She received an M.S. (May 2015) and Ph.D. (February 2019) degrees from Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute. For her dissertation work, Yang developed  algorithms for understanding computational social roles by bringing together machine learning techniques with sociology and social psychology. Upon completing her PhD, Yang became an assistant professor at the Georgia Tech College of Computing where she now leads the Social and Language Technologies (SALT) Lab. Recognition. In 2020, Yang was named one of IEEE AI's 10 To Watch, and in 2021, she was awarded Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, Intel Rising Star, and was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Science.