Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
xiye [at] cs.utexas.edu xiye17 xiye_nlp
I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, advised by Greg Durrett. I am also a part of the TAUR lab (Text Analysis, Understanding, and Reasoning).
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and the interpretability of NLP models in particular. Specifically, I am interested in leveraging explanations to improve and calibrate NLP models for complex textual reasoning tasks. I also work on semantic parsing and program synthesis.
Prior to joining UT Austin, I obtained my Bachelor's degree from the School of Software, Tsinghua University, where I worked with Prof. Shixia Liu on Visual Analysis and Machine Learning.
Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to chat about interpretability, program synthesis, or NLP in general.
[Mar. 2023] On Effective Use of Explanations in Prompting @ Student reading group, UMD. slides
[Mar. 2023] On Effective Use of Explanations in Prompting @ Meetup of MLNLP Community.
[Mar. 2023] On Effective Use of Explanations in Prompting @ DM2Lab, UND.
[Nov. 2022] On Unreliability of Explanations in Prompting @ AI4LIFE group, Harvard.
[Jun. 2022] On Calibration using Explanations @ NeuLab group, CMU.
Facebook AI Research. Research Intern. Summer 2022.
Salesforce Research. Research Intern. Summer 2021.
Reviwer: ACL (23), EMNLP (22), NAACL (22), ARR (22, 21), ICML (23), NeurIPS (22), CONLL (21, 20), TL4NLP Workshop (22), SUKI Workshop (22), NLP4Prog Workshop (21).
TA for CS378: Natural Language Processing (undergraduate). Fall 2022
TA for CS388: Natural Language Processing (graduate). Srping 2021
TA for CS429: Computer Architecture and Organization (undergraduate). Fall 2018, Srping 2019