I am a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where I explore model- and data-efficient approaches to Large Language Models.
I received my Ph.D. from Cornell CIS and Cornell Tech, where I was extremely fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sasha Rush and Prof. Jeff Rzeszotarski. Before coming to Cornell, I was affiliated with HKU (courses), working with Prof. Reynold Cheng, and also spent some time at SFU working with Prof. Jiannan Wang.
During my doctoral studies I had the great fortunate to spend summers working with fantastics researchers at Google Research, Microsoft Research and Facebook AI.
My research interest has always been drawn to the question, “How far can we stretch a bit of computation?”.
Here is my Email: jy858 AT cornell.edu
Reading books(The GAY GENIUS SU SHI), Doing random Weight lifting, and Trying to practice golfing more. Also a big fan of many Japanese Cartoons 名探偵コナン and 夏目友人帳.
Was an active member in Foreign Affairs Association. Co-founder of PowerFair, a NGO platform based in Hong Kong which aims at promoting the equal access to public resources (i.e., data).
Previous band member, good at making noises.