Scholar
Yang Deng
Google Scholar ID: OshWT3UAAAAJ
Singapore Management University
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,013
H-index
33
i10-index
69
Publications
20
Co-authors
29
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Single Year, 2025) by Stanford/Elsevier; multiple papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025, EMNLP 2025, ACL 2025, etc.; awarded Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards 2024; served as Program Chairs, Area Chairs for various international conferences.
Research Experience
- Currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University (SMU). Previously, a postdoctoral research fellow at NExT++.
Education
- Ph.D.: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Supervisor: Prof. Wai Lam; Postdoctoral Research Fellow: National University of Singapore, Collaborators: Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and Prof. See-Kiong Ng
Background
- Research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), and Large Language Models (LLM), with a special focus on Proactive Conversational AI, Non-collaborative Dialogues, Target-guided Dialogues, Emotional Support Dialogues, Clarifications, Trust and Reliability of Large Language Models, Knowledge Boundary, Robustness, Hallucination, Misinformation, Safety, Language Model Powered Agents, Role-playing Agent, Human-Agent Interaction, Planning, Memory, Human-centered Information Seeking.
Miscellany
- Actively looking for highly motivated PhD students (starting from 2026 Fall). Several SMU-funded visiting student positions available (standard monthly stipend of 2700 SGD). Self-funded visiting scholars (e.g., CSC Project) and remote collaborations are also welcomed.
