Yufang Hou
Professor at IT:U- Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria
Austria
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Top SchoolYufang Hou is a founding professor of Natural Language Processing at IT:U and a research scientist at IBM Research Europe with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industrial innovation. She leads an NLP group focused on LLM governance, cross-document understanding, knowledge and reasoning, and human-centered applications across education, social sciences, humanities, and scientific discovery. Her work emphasizes robust, trustworthy NLP that improves human–AI and human–human interactions, translating theoretical advances into real-world impact. Yufang has held visiting and teaching roles at UKP Lab–TU Darmstadt and brings a PhD in Computational Linguistics from Heidelberg University, reflecting deep expertise in linguistic modeling and evaluation. She carries a rare blend of long-term industrial research experience and academic leadership, often co-supervising students while steering lab-level strategy. Beyond publications, her practical focus on governance and interdisciplinary applications marks her as a pragmatic thinker who prioritizes societal benefits of NLP.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (15)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bridging10
deep-learning10
python10
data-science10
tensorflow9
jax9
benchmark9
nlp8
neural-network8
bert6
jekyll3
css1
javascript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yufanghou/yufanghou.github.io
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:279 pushes in 3 years 3 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
IBM/bridging-resolution
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 23 pushes, 8 comments in 1 year 8 months
nlpibm-researchanaphora-resolutionibm-research-aibridging
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