Yiwei Lyu
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiwei Lyu is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan focused on multimodal machine learning and visual-language methods for healthcare applications. With eight years of experience spanning research and industry, Yiwei has contributed to award-winning projects (Best AI for Science, Best Paper at ACL workshop) and published in top venues like ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, and NAACL. Prior work at Carnegie Mellon and internships at LG AI Research and Pinterest underpin a strong foundation in representation learning, interpretability, computer vision, and NLP. Beyond publications, Yiwei has taught graduate machine learning, redesigned course materials, and led grading and project mentorship, demonstrating a blend of research depth and pedagogical skill. A less obvious strength is a track record of turning benchmark and dataset work (e.g., MultiBench, StylePTB) into broadly useful tools and reproducible resources for the community.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganMaster's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (39)
representation-learning10
robotics10
speech-processing10
machine-learning10
multimodal10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
pytorch9
deep-learning9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
transformer8
python8
par8
tensorflow7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pliang279/MultiViz
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
[ICLR 2023] MultiViz: Towards Visualizing and Understanding Multimodal Models
Contributions:31 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
computer-visionmachine-learningmultimodal-learningnatural-language-processing
lvyiwei1/StylePTB
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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