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Yi R. (May) Fung

A Boston-born local passionate about NLP, knowledge reasoning, tech in general, and content creation, while exploring the world.

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Hi There, Welcome!

I am an incoming assistant professor at HKUST. I completed my Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois, where I have been fortunately advised by Prof. Heng Ji, after which I’d been visiting MIT and conducting postdoctoral research with Prof. Paul Liang’s research group.

My research focus centers around socially-situated human-centered trustworthy NLP/AI with multimedia knowledge reasoning capability and scalable alignment principles. My work on fundamental model architectural mechanisms and frameworks empowering harmless, helpful, and honest information communication has been recognized by three best/outstanding paper awards at top AI/NLP conferences.


Recent News:

  • [Oct] I’ll be heading to EMNLP’24 with three papers to present, look fwd to seeing many new and familiar faces in Miami!
  • [Sept] We’re organizing the AAAI’25 Workshop on AI4Research - submit your research by Nov 22!