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Researcher

Diyi Yang

Diyi Yang is a Stanford computer scientist who develops language technologies that support human communication and collaboration with AI. She completed a doctorate at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute in 2019, worked at Google and Georgia Tech, and joined Stanford in 2022. She coauthored MixText for text classification, Rehearsal for conflict practice, CultureBank for cultural knowledge, and Collaborative Gym for teamwork with AI agents. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2022 and a Sloan research award in computer science in 2024. At Stanford, she is an assistant professor of computer science and leads the Social and Language Technologies Lab.

Works
490
Citations
15,281
h-index
50
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2013–2019

    Degrees in computer science and language

    She earns a bachelor's degree in computer science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013. At Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute, she completes a master's degree in 2015 and a doctorate in 2019. Robert Kraut and Eduard Hovy advise her doctoral work on computational social roles, which combines machine learning, sociology and social psychology.

  2. 2019–2022

    Google, Georgia Tech and Stanford

    In 2019, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at Google. She joins Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing as an assistant professor in 2019. In 2022, she moves to Stanford's Computer Science Department.

  3. 2020

    MixText for text classification

    In 2020, she coauthors MixText with Jiaao Chen and Zichao Yang. The method learns from labeled and unlabeled text, creating additional training examples by mixing text representations inside a neural network.

  4. 2022

    An NSF CAREER Award

    She receives an NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2022.

  5. 2023

    Rehearsal for conflict resolution

    In 2023, she coauthors Rehearsal with Omar Shaikh, Valentino Chai, Michele J. Gelfand and Michael S. Bernstein. The system uses a large language model to let people practice difficult conversations and receive feedback based on conflict resolution theory.

  6. 2024

    A Sloan research award

    She receives a Sloan research award in computer science in 2024.

  7. November 2024

    CultureBank for cultural knowledge

    In November 2024, she coauthors CultureBank, a knowledge base built from people's accounts of their cultures in online communities. The team uses it to assess large language models' cultural awareness and to train a model for cultural tasks.

  8. December 2024

    Collaborative Gym for human–agent teamwork

    In December 2024, she coauthors the first preprint of Collaborative Gym with Yijia Shao, Vinay Samuel, Yucheng Jiang and John Yang. The framework supports communication between people and AI agents working in shared task environments. It also evaluates their collaboration.

  9. 2026

    Program chair at ICLR

    In 2026, she serves as an ICLR program chair alongside Colin Raffel, Lerrel Pinto and Aleksandra Faust.

  10. 2026

    Assistant professor at Stanford

    In fall 2026, she teaches Engineering AI Agents at Stanford with Michael Ryan and John Yang. She is an assistant professor in Stanford's Computer Science Department. She leads the Social and Language Technologies Lab, where she develops socially aware language technologies to support human communication.

Career

  1. Since 2022Stanford UniversityFaculty member
  2. NowStanford UniversityAssistant professor of Computer Science
  3. NowStanford UniversityLeader of Social and Language Technologies Lab
  4. 2023–2026University of Washington
  5. 2021–2023Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  6. 2019–2022Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssistant professor
  7. GooglePostdoctoral researcher

Education

  1. 2019Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD in Language and Information Technology
  2. 2015Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 2013Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor's degree in computer science

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Checked career sources: lti.cs.cmu.edu, en.wikipedia.org, cs.stanford.edu, engineering.stanford.edu.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Diyi Yang - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Diyi Yang - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University lti.cs.cmu.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. Diyi Yang | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing simons.berkeley.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. MixText: Linguistically-Informed Interpolation of Hidden Space for Semi-Supervised Text Classification - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Diyi Yang's Profile | Stanford Profiles profiles.stanford.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. [2309.12309] Rehearsal: Simulating Conflict to Teach Conflict Resolution arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  7. Diyi Yang, Zhiyuan ACM alumni, has won the 2024 Sloan Research Award en.zhiyuan.sjtu.edu.cn. Checked 27 October 2026.
  8. CultureBank: An Online Community-Driven Knowledge Base Towards Culturally Aware Language Technologies - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  9. [2412.15701] Collaborative Gym: A Framework for Enabling and Evaluating Human-Agent Collaboration arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  10. ICLR 2026 Organizing Committee iclr.cc. Checked 27 October 2026.
  11. Diyi Yang | Computer Science cs.stanford.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  12. Diyi Yang on language, computers, and societal impact | Stanford University School of Engineering engineering.stanford.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  13. Stanford CS329Z | Engineering AI Agents cs329z.stanford.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.