Ziyu Yao
Assistant Professor at George Mason University
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiyu Yao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University with a decade of research and engineering experience spanning AI, NLP, reinforcement learning, and deep learning. He earned his PhD and MS from The Ohio State University after a BS in Communication Engineering, and has applied his research in industry through internships at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon, Fujitsu, and other labs. His work bridges foundational research and practical conversational-agent development, reflecting hands-on contributions to both academic projects and industry prototyping. Based in Virginia, he combines rigorous academic training with a pattern of interdisciplinary collaborations, often translating theoretical models into systems tested in real-world settings. Unknown to many, his trajectory includes early international research at a Tsinghua‑Waterloo joint center, highlighting a long-standing focus on information acquisition and cross-institutional partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Communication Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (36)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
neural-network10
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
parsing9
persona9
fairness-ml8
semantic-parsing8
retrieval7
semantic7
survey5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LittleYUYU/StackOverflow-Question-Code-Dataset
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:97 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
LittleYUYU/CoaCor
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Code for "CoaCor: Code Annotation for Code Retrieval with Reinforcement Learning" (WWW 2019)
Contributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reinforcement-learningreinforcementannotationretrieval
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