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Yiming Yang

Professor

Language Technologies Institute

  • Professor
    Language Technologies Institute
  • 412-268-1364 (Work)
  • Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States

BIO

Yiming Yang is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a joint appointment in the Language Technologies Institute and the Machine Learning Department.  She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kyoto University (Japan) and has been a faculty member at CMU since 1996.  Her research has centered on machine learning, scalable algorithms and a broad range applications, including scalable alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with human-valued principles and beyond human supervision, LLMs for mathematical reasoning and theorem proving, Program-aided LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge-enhanced Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), deep learning for combinatorial optimization, neural network architecture optimization, and more.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2003 - present
  • Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2003 - present
  • Associate Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technology Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States1999 - 2003
  • Associate Professor (Tenured)
    Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States1999 - 2003
  • Sr. Research Scientist
    Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technology Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States1996 - 1999
  • Sr. Research Scientist
    Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States1996 - 1999
  • Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
    Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota, United States1993 - 1996
  • Research Scientist
    New Mexico State University, Computing Research Lab, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States1986 - 1988

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Consultant
    Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, Minnesota, United States1990 - 1996

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Computer Science
    Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan1986

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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