Scholar
Yu Hou
Google Scholar ID: 2U1WiMMAAAAJ
University of Maryland, College Park
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,171
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
9
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- NAACL 2025: "Language Models Predict Empathy Gaps Between Social In-groups and Out-groups"
- ICLR 2025: "Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models"
- EMNLP 2023: "ACQUIRED: A Dataset for Answering Counterfactual Questions In Real-Life Videos"
- AACL 2022 (Findings): "On Measures of Biases and Harms in NLP"
- ACL 2021 (Findings): "COM2SENSE: A Commonsense Reasoning Benchmark with Complementary Sentences"
- Interspeech 2020: "Self-Attentive Similarity Measurement Strategies in Speaker Diarization"
Background
- Second-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park
- Member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab
- Research focuses on human-centered and socio-culturally aware AI
- Passionate about learning languages in social contexts and exploring intersections between natural language and social psychology
- Specific interests include: (1) how AI can influence interpersonal relationships by understanding the role of language models in intergroup or interpersonal communication; (2) how AI can connect people across cultures by understanding human needs and building more helpful tools
Miscellany
- Spring 2024: Teaching Assistant for CMSC470: Introduction to Natural Language Processing, University of Maryland
- Fall 2023: Teaching Assistant for CMSC723: Natural Language Processing, University of Maryland
- Fall 2021 & Spring 2021: Teaching Assistant for CSCI 455x: Introduction to Programming Systems Design, USC
- Fall 2019 (Session 2): Teaching Assistant for STATS102: Introduction to Data Science, Duke Kunshan University
- Oct 31–Nov 1, 2024: Co-organized AI Alignment event
