Diyi Yang

Diyi Yang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Stanford University

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Diyi is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group, Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). She is interested in Socially Aware Natural Language Processing. Her research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction.

Selected Awards/Honors

  • Sloan Research Fellowship, 2024
  • ONR Young Investigator Award, 2024
  • Adamic-Glance Young Distinguished Award, ICWSM, 2023
  • Kavli Fellow, NAS, 2023
  • ACL Outstanding Paper, 2022
  • Gabilan Faculty Fellow, Stanford, 2022
  • SIGCHI Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2022
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2022
  • Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, Georgia Tech, 2022
  • Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, 2021
  • Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, 2021
  • Intel Rising Star Award, 2021
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, CoC, Georgia Tech, 2021
  • IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch, 2020