Scholar
Yi R. (May) Fung
Google Scholar ID: eUae2K0AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,093
H-index
25
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the ACL'24 Outstanding Paper Award, NAACL'24 Outstanding Paper Award, and NAACL'21 Best Demo Paper Award. Serves on the Organizing Committee for ACL/IJCAI, as Area Chair for NeurIPS/ACL/EMNLP/ACL-RR, and as Program Chair for ACM Multimedia System (MMSys).
Research Experience
- Research experience at the University of Illinois and MIT, currently leading a young, energetic, and growing research lab at HKUST.
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, followed by a postdoctoral researcher position at MIT.
Background
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on human-centric trustworthy AI/NLP model reasoning, cognitively grounded scalable alignment principles, and advancing multimodal knowledge robustness mechanisms. She has published nearly 50 papers at top-tier machine learning venues, covering topics such as MLLM agentic frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-lingual cross-culture situation understanding for diverse real-world applications.
Miscellany
- Her work has been reported by various mainstream news outlets, including TVB News and The Paper 澎湃新聞. A number of her students have been awarded or nominated for highly selective HKPFS/RedBird merit fellowships.
