Zhou Yu
Scholar

Zhou Yu

Google Scholar ID: jee2Dy0AAAAJ
Columbia University
Dialog SystemsMultimodal AnalysisSpeech and Natural Language ProcessingArtificial Intelligence
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,404
 
H-index
48
 
i10-index
143
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
22
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science in 2018; Winner of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Socialbot Competition; ACL 2019 Best Paper Nomination; Lab received Outstanding Paper Awards at ACL 2024 and NAACL 2024; 2023 Provost's Junior Faculty Award from Columbia University; 2023 Faculty Award from Sony; 2023 Research Award from Walmart AI Lab; 2022 Faculty Award from Cisco; 2021 IBM Faculty Award; 2021 Adobe Faculty Award; 2021 Tencent Faculty Award.
Research Experience
  • Currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University; Co-founder of Arklex.ai; Former Assistant Professor at UC Davis; Interned at ETS San Francisco Office under Prof. David Suendermann-Oeft; Interned at Microsoft Research under Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz.
Education
  • PhD: Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, graduated in 2017, advisors were Prof. Alan W Black and Prof. Alexander I. Rudnicky; B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Linguistics, Zhejiang University, graduated in 2011, worked with Prof. Xiaofei He, Prof. Deng Cai, and Prof. Yunhua Qu.
Background
  • Research Interests: Real-time intelligent interactive systems, multimodal sensing and analysis, speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Professional Field: Computer Science.
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: Interdisciplinary research in areas such as healthcare, education, and robotics.