Yizhe Zhang
Scholar

Yizhe Zhang

Google Scholar ID: WDVMfggAAAAJ
Apple
Machine learningNatural Language ProcessingBayesian Statistics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
10,665
 
H-index
40
 
i10-index
71
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
9
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Area Chair/Senior Program Committee: ICLR 2023-2025, ICML 2022-2025, NeurIPS 2020-2025, ACL 2020-2021, EMNLP 2022, NAACL 2023, AAAI 2018-2021
  • - Editorial Roles: Action Editor for TMLR (since 2023) and ACL Rolling Review (ARR, since 2023)
  • - Organization: Organization Committee Member, ACL 2020
Research Experience
  • - Apple MLR: Staff Research Scientist
  • - Meta AI: Worked on natural language generation and NLP pre-training
  • - Microsoft Research: Worked on natural language generation and NLP pre-training
Education
  • - Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Duke University
  • - B.Sc. degree in Physics from Nanjing University, Kuang Yaming Honors School (2011)
Background
  • - Position: Staff Research Scientist at Apple MLR
  • - Research Interests: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with a focus on pushing LLMs to gain more intuition and strong generalization, especially in the code domain
  • - Professional Fields: Code LLM & Agents, Long-Horizon Planning, RAG & Reasoning with Continuous Tokens, Text Diffusion Models, Coding-Based AI Scientist
Miscellany
  • - Seeking Research Interns: Inviting senior PhD students working on text diffusion, continuous token representations, coding LLMs/agents, AI scientists, and lookahead training to apply for a research internship at Apple MLR
  • - Personal Links: GitHub, Feed