xi.ye [at] princeton.edu xiye17 scholar xiye_nlp
I am a Postdoctral Researcher at Princeton Language and Intelligence.
My research is primarily in the field of Natural Language Processing, with an emphasis on improving the explainability of large language models and enhancing their reasoning capabilities. I also work on semantic parsing and program synthesis.
I obtained my PhD from the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, advised by Greg Durrett. Prior to joining UT Austin, I obtained my Bachelor's degree from the School of Software, Tsinghua University, where I worked with Prof. Shixia Liu on Visual Analysis and Machine Learning.
π£ I will join the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor at starting in July 2025, and I am planning to recruit PhD/MS students in the upcoming cycle. (To prospective students: please include "Fall 25 Prospective Student" in email subject line.)[11/2023] On Steering Textual Reasoning with Explanations @ CHAI group, Uchicago.
[10/2023] On Steering Textual Reasoning with Explanations @ Yale NLP Lab, Yale.
[03/2023] On Effective Use of Explanations in Prompting @ Student reading group, UMD. slides
[03/2023] On Effective Use of Explanations in Prompting @ Meetup of MLNLP Community.
[03/2023] On Effective Use of Explanations in Prompting @ DM2Lab, UND.
[11/2022] On Unreliability of Explanations in Prompting @ AI4LIFE group, Harvard.
[06/2022] On Calibration using Explanations @ NeuLab group, CMU.
Area Chair: ACL (24), EMNLP (24)
Reviewer: ACL (23), ICML (23,24), NeurIPS (22, 23), ICLR (24), EMNLP (22), NAACL (22), ARR (22, 21), CONLL (21, 20), TL4NLP Workshop (22), SUKI Workshop (22), NLP4Prog Workshop (21).
TA for CS378: Natural Language Processing (undergraduate). Fall 2022
TA for CS388: Natural Language Processing (graduate). Spring 2021
TA for CS429: Computer Architecture and Organization (undergraduate). Fall 2018, Spring 2019