🔭 I’m a Fourth-Year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at McGill University and Quebec AI Institute-Mila.
🧑🏫 It's fortunate to be supervised by Professor Xue (Steve) Liu.
📅 It's fortunate to have Professor Adriana Romero Soriano and Professor Gintare Karolina Dziugaite as my supervision committee member.
🧐 My research centers on developing large language models and score-based generative models to advance intelligent systems, with applications in (i) addressing challenges in offline black-box optimization, (ii) enabling knowledge-centric NLP tasks such as automatic knowledge base construction, and (iii) improving the efficiency and efficacy of AI systems for real-world applications. My work is supported by multiple fellowships and has been published at top venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, and TMLR. Representative contributions include authoring a comprehensive survey on offline black-box optimization with Turing Award Winner Prof. Yoshua Bengio, which is accepted by TMLR with the Survey Certification, and presenting an EMNLP 2024 oral paper (top 3%), complemented by industrial research experiences or close collaborations at Microsoft Research, RBC Borealis, and Samsung Research America.
💪 My greatest assets are my eagerness to learn new things, my curiosity to delve into uncharted territories, my drive to stay abreast of the latest developments, and my persistence to work hard.
🏭 Beyond academia, I collaborate closely with Microsoft Research, Samsung Research America, RBC Borealis and Noah’s Ark Lab Canada.
📑 See my publications at Google Scholar.
📧 If you have any questions about my projects or have cooperation intentions with me, feel free to contact me via email: ye.yuan3 AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca