Yu Meng
Assistant Professor at University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolYu Meng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia with nine years of research and industry experience bridging academia and large tech labs. Trained at UIUC (BS, MS, PhD), Yu spent several summers as a research intern at Google, Microsoft, and Meta before completing a multi-year research appointment at UIUC and transitioning to a faculty role in 2024. Their work blends deep technical rigor with applied systems and machine learning research, informed by hands-on collaborations in industry research environments. Known for turning complex research problems into practical systems, Yu maintains an active personal webpage and GitHub presence that highlight reproducible research and code-driven publications.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (37)
representation-learning10
hierarchical10
classification10
unsupervised-learning10
language-modeling10
weakly-supervised-learning10
contrastive-learning10
transformer-architecture10
natural-language-understanding9
reinforcement-learning9
sentence-embeddings9
text-classification9
word-embeddings9
ranking9
nlp9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yumeng5/SuperGen
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
[NeurIPS 2022] Generating Training Data with Language Models: Towards Zero-Shot Language Understanding
Contributions:15 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
pytorchunderstandingnatural-language-understandingzerozero-shot-learning
yumeng5/WeSTClass
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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