About me

I'm Zhiyu Zoey Chen, and I am a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof. Fei Fang. I will join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2024. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I was advised by Prof. William Wang and Prof. Xifeng Yan.

I'm broadly interested in natural language processing and deep learning. Specifically, I have been working on building the AI models that can ground on knowledge sources and make interactions with the users, which covers the areas of dialogue and interaction systems, question answering, natural language generation, and knowledge reasoning.

Publications

  • Multimodal Procedural Planning via Dual Text-Image Prompting
    Yujie Lu, Pan Lu, Zhiyu Chen, Wanrong Zhu Xin Eric Wang and William Yang Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12156.     [paper][data and code]
  • Explanations from Large Language Models Make Small Reasoners Better
    Shiyang Li, Jianshu Chen, Yelong Shen, Zhiyu Chen, Xinlu Zhang, Zekun Li, Hong Wang, Jing Qian, Baolin Peng, Yi Mao, Wenhu Chen and Xifeng Yan
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.06726.     [paper][data and code]
  • Improving Medical Predictions by Irregular Multimodal Electronic Health Records Modeling
    Xinlu Zhang, Shiyang Li, Zhiyu Chen, Xifeng Yan and Linda R. Petzold
    Proceedings of ICML 2023.     [paper][data and code]
  • ConvFinQA: Exploring the Chain of Numerical Reasoning in Conversational Finance Question Answering
    Zhiyu Chen, Shiyang Li, Charese Smiley, Zhiqiang Ma, Sameena Shah, William Yang Wang
    Proceedings of EMNLP 2022.     [paper][data and code]
  • KETOD: Knowledge-Enriched Task-Oriented Dialogue
    Zhiyu Chen, Bing Liu, Seungwhan Moon, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Paul Crook, William Yang Wang
    Findings of NAACL 2022.     [paper][data and code]
  • Inductive Relation Prediction by BERT
    Hanwen Zha, Zhiyu Chen, Xifeng Yan
    Proceedings of AAAI 2022.     [paper][data and code]
  • FinQA: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial Data
    Zhiyu Chen, Wenhu Chen, Charese Smiley, Sameena Shah, Iana Borova, Dylan Langdon, Reema Moussa, Matt Beane, Ting-Hao Huang, Bryan Routledge, and William Yang Wang
    Proceedings of EMNLP 2021.     [paper][data and code]
  • NUANCED: Natural Utterance Annotation for Nuanced Conversation with Estimated Distributions
    Zhiyu Chen, Honglei Liu, Hu Xu, Seungwhan Moon, Hao Zhou, Bing Liu
    Findings of EMNLP 2021.     [paper][data and code]
  • Hulk: An Energy Efficiency Benchmark Platform for Responsible Natural Language Processing
    Xiyou Zhou, Zhiyu Chen, Xiaoyong Jin, William Yang Wang
    Demo of EACL 2021.     [paper][data and code]
  • Logic2Text: High-Fidelity Natural Language Generation from Logical Forms
    Zhiyu Chen, Wenhu Chen, Hanwen Zha, Xiyou Zhou, Yunkai Zhang, Sairam Sundaresan, and William Yang Wang
    Findings of EMNLP 2020.     [paper][data and code]
  • HybridQA: A Dataset of Multi-Hop Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data
    Wenhu Chen, Hanwen Zha, Zhiyu Chen, Wenhan Xiong, Hong Wang, and William Yang Wang
    Findings of EMNLP 2020.     [paper][data and code]
  • Few-Shot NLG with Pre-Trained Language Model
    Zhiyu Chen, Harini Eavani, Wenhu Chen, Yinyin Liu, and William Yang Wang
    Proceedings of ACL 2020.     [paper][data and code]
  • Logical Natural Language Generation From Open-Domain Tables
    Wenhu Chen, Jianshu Chen, Yu Su, Zhiyu Chen, and William Yang Wang
    Proceedings of ACL 2020.     [paper][data and code]
  • Global Textual Relation Embedding for Relational Understanding
    Zhiyu Chen, Hanwen Zha, Honglei Liu, Wenhu Chen, Xifeng Yan, and Yu Su
    Proceedings of ACL 2019.     [paper][data and code]
  • How Large A Vocabulary Does Text Classification Need? A Variational Approach on Vocabulary Selection
    Wenhu Chen, Yu Su, Yilin Shen, Zhiyu Chen, Xifeng Yan, and William Yang Wang
    Proceedings of NAACL 2019.     [paper][data and code]
  • IMAP: An Iterative Method for Aligning Protein-Protein Interaction Networks
    Xuezhi Cao, Zhiyu Chen, Xinyi Zhang, and Yong Yu
    Proceedings of BIBM 2017.     [paper]

Education

  • 09/2017 - 06/2022: Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara. Advisors: Prof. William Wang and Prof. Xifeng Yan.
  • 09/2013 - 06/2017: B.S., Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Experience

  • 08/2023 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 08/2022 - 08/2023: Research Scientist, Meta
  • 06/2021 - 09/2021: Research Intern, Facebook
  • 06/2020 - 09/2020: Research Intern, Facebook
  • 06/2019 - 09/2019: Research Intern, WeWork
  • 06/2018 - 09/2018: Research Intern, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Services

Fun Stuff

Reading and Writing.

I am passionate about psychology and philosophy, and enjoy reading - big fan of Nietzsche and Camus! I also like writing micro novels in my spare time, check my Zhihu (in Chinese) for my stories and thoughts.

Art and Design.

Art and design - also a huge part of my life. I like sketching, photography, video clipping, designing micro movies. Check out some of my sketchs and photos on Instagram and 500px. I was the head of the propaganda center of the student union during my undergraduate. I was the co-organizer of the welcome party of my college, and the director/co-director of over 10 micro movies and promotional videos. Check some of them (in Chinese) Here.

Contact Me

Email:      zhiyuc [at] andrew.cmu.edu