xiye [at] cs.utexas.edu xiye17 scholar xiye_nlp
I recently obtained my PhD from the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, advised by Greg Durrett.
My PhD research focuses on Natural Language Processing and the interpretability of NLP models in particular. Specifically, I am interested in leveraging explanations to steer language models for complex textual reasoning tasks. I also work on semantic parsing and program synthesis.
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 am joining the University of Alberta as an assistant professor in July 2025. Before that, I will spend a year at Princeton Language and Intelligence.
π£ [06/2024] Our tutorial Explanation in the Era of Large Language Models is accepted to appear @ NAACL 2024
π£ [08/2024] I'll co-organize the Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations Workshop @ ACL 2024. Please consider submitting to our workshop.
[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)
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
Google Cloud AI Research. Research Intern. Summer 2023.
Facebook AI Research. Research Intern. Summer 2022.
Salesforce Research. Research Intern. Summer 2021.