Dian Yu
Research Scientist at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDian Yu is a Research Scientist at Google with 11 years of experience specializing in NLP, dialog systems, and attribute representation with neural models. Her work spans open-domain and task-oriented dialogue, multilingual settings, language generation, and multimodal research, grounded in a PhD in Computer Science from UC Davis. She has a strong track record of applied research—from leading the Alexa Prize-winning UC Davis team that boosted user ratings by 19% to internships and projects at Uber AI and multiple Google research roles. Dian combines systems-building experience (NLU pipelines, retrieval for NLG) with exploration of embodied and reinforcement-learning settings, reflecting a rare blend of production-minded engineering and deep academic rigor. Based in New York, she often bridges interdisciplinary teams and has a history of turning research prototypes into user-facing improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, DavisNew York University
Github Skills (17)
simulator9
robotics9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
computer-vision8
reinforcement-learning7
python7
deep-learning6
ai6
simulation6
modular6
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence5
high-performance4
nlp3
spring2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DianDYu/MIDAS_dialog_act
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
DianDYu/test
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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