Yuwei Yin
CS Ph.D. student at UBC
yuweiyin [AT] cs.ubc.ca
Hi, I am Yuwei, a Ph.D. student in the UBC NLP Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia (Vancouver π¨π¦), advised by Prof. Giuseppe Carenini. My research primarily centers on artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). Previously, I conducted research on Multilingual NLP and Multimodal NLP. Currently, I am focusing on mindful thinking and logical reasoning in AI systems, aiming to build a human-like AI mind & brain by instilling cognitive & psychological insights into intelligent agents.
Experience
Ph.D. in Computer Science @ The University of British Columbia (UBC)
Graduate Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant, UBC CS
Affiliation: UBC NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
2024.01 - Present
Research Assistant @ The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Affiliation: HKU NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
2022.10 - 2023.12
Research Intern @ Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
Affiliation: Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing)
2020.11 - 2021.09
Research Intern @ Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Affiliation: Trusted Computing & Information Assurance Lab, Institute of Software
2017.09 - 2018.06
Academic Service
Reviewer (Program Committee)
- Conference: ACL Rolling Review (2022-2026), COLM (2025-2026), NeurIPS (2025), AAAI (2026), ICLR (2026)
- Journal: TASLP (2022), ncomms (2023), TALLIP (2023), TNNLS (2024, 2025), JAIR (2025), NCAA (2025), LRE (2025)
Selected Honors
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards of The Year [Award] (Awarded by UBC Computer Science) - 2025
- SIGDIAL 2024 Best Paper Award [Paper] [Award] (Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue) - 2024
- Award of Excellence in Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program (Awarded by Microsoft Research Asia) - 2021
- Beijing Outstanding Graduate Award (Awarded by Beijing Municipal Commission of Education) - 2018
- National Scholarship (Awarded by The Ministry of Education of China) - 2016 & 2017
- 1st Prize @ National Physics Competition (Awarded by Chinese Physical Society) - 2015