Hello there!
I'm Tianyi(Lorena) Yan Contact: tianyiy `at` usc `dot` edu

I am an undergraduate student (Computer Science B.S.) at USC Viterbi. My research interests lie in developing more robust, structured, and factual knowledge acquisition models.

I am grateful to be advised by Professor Robin Jia at ALLeGRo Lab and Professor Muhao Chen at LUKA Lab. I have also had the pleasure to work with Professor Hao Zhou at Insititute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University.

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🗃 Publications

Contrastive Instruction Tuning

  • Tianyi Lorena Yan, Fei Wang, James Y. Huang, Wenxuan Zhou, Fan Yin, Aram Galstyan, Wenpeng Yin, Muhao Chen
  • In Findings of ACL, 2024
  • [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Poster] [Video]

Robust Natural Language Understanding with Residual Attention Debiasing

  • Fei Wang*, James Y. Huang*, Tianyi Yan, Wenxuan Zhou, Muhao Chen
  • In Findings of ACL, 2023
  • [Paper] [Code]

Monotonic Paraphrasing Improves Generalization of Language Model Prompting

  • Qin Liu, Fei Wang, Nan Xu, Tianyi Yan, Tao Meng, Muhao Chen
  • Paper under submission
  • [Paper]

💻 Industry Experience

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May 2023 – August 2023
Diffusion-based Molecule Generation Research Intern, Tsinghua AIR
June 2022 – August 2022
M365 Deployment Software Engineer Intern, Microsoft

🏫 Teaching and Service

January 2022 – May 2024
Teaching Assistant at USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering @ University of Southern California
February 2021 – May 2023
Leader of USC CSSA Career Development Mentorship Program

🎼 Personal

  • Language: Mandarin, English
  • Cooking, Flute (played for 8 years!), Piano, Volleyball, Game

Checkout my cooking journal on ins! 👉

Contact

Email

Work-related: tianyiy `at` usc `dot` edu
Others: lorena `dot` yantianyi1020 'at' gmail 'dot' com

Location

Los Angeles, California