TOM YOUNG
AKA Yang Tianji +65 86944289 Singapore
tomyoung@nus.edu.sg
EDUCATION
PhD of Computer Science Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Bachelor of Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Fellow National University of Singapore Sep. 2022 - now
Research intern Continental Inc., Singapore Apr. 2019 - Oct. 2019
Research intern Baidu Inc., Beijing Mar. 2018 - Jun. 2018
Research assistent Tsinghua University, Beijing Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2018
RESEARCH INTEREST
Pretrained large language models
PUBLICATIONS
•On the Inconsistencies of Conditionals Learned by Masked Language Models,Tom Young, Yang You, arXiv
preprint arXiv:2301.00068
•Fusing Task-oriented and Open-domain Dialogues in Conversational Agents,Tom Young, F Xing, V Pandelea,
J Ni, E Cambria, AAAI 2022
•Recent Trends in Deep Learning Based Natural Language Processing,Tom Young, D Hazarika, S Poria, and E
Cambria, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2018
•Augmenting End-to-End Dialogue Systems with Commonsense Knowledge,Tom Young, E Cambria, I Chaturvedi,
H Zhou, S Biswas, M Huang, AAAI 2018
•Dialogue Systems with Audio Context,Tom Young, V Pandelea, S Poria, E Cambria, Neurocomputing 2020
•HiTKG: Towards Goal-oriented Conversations via Multi-hierarchy Learning, J Ni, V Pandelea, Tom Young,
H Zhou, E Cambria, AAAI 2022
•Toward Hardware-aware Deep Learning Based Dialogue Systems, V Pandelea, E Ragusa, Tom Young, P
Gastaldo, E Cambria, Neural Computing and Applications 2021
•Recent Advances in Deep Learning Based Dialogue Systems: A Systematic Survey, J Ni, Tom Young, V
Pandelea, F Xue, V Adiga, E Cambria, arXiv 2021
•Commonsense Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Graph Attention, H Zhou, Tom Young, M
Huang, H Zhao, J Xu, and X Zhu, IJCAI 2018
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & TEACHING
Journal reviewer Knowledge-Based Systems, Cognitive Computation,
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Artificial Intelligence Review
Conference reviewer ACL 2020, ACL 2021, AAAI 2023, AAAI 2024
Teaching NTU-CE1003: Intro to Computation Thinking
NTU-CZ2004: Human Computer Interaction
NUS-CS5260: Neural Networks and Deep Learning II
AWARDS & RESEARCH IMPACT
•2018 IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award
•2021 IEEE CIM Outstanding Paper Award
•Google Scholar Citations: 4000+
