Ian Yang

Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Minnesota

Hello! I recently completed my undergraduate degree in computer science at Georgia Tech. I also dabble in mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics.

Broadly, I’m interested in socially-aware natural language processing. I hope to understand the sociocultural implications of language technologies and how to minimize non-normative behaviors in intelligent agents.

My current research at Georgia Tech is in NLP techniques applied to the value alignment problem, advised by Mark Riedl.

I’m also a research assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Norman Sadeh. At CMU I’m interested in NLP applied to data security and privacy.

Most recently, I have been collaborating with Mingyi Hong and Dongyeop Kang at the University of Minnesota. At UMN I am working on interpretability reward shaping for RLHF alignment tasks.

Previously, I was a research assistant at The Ohio State University (advised by Dong Xuan) where I worked on automatic speech recognition (ASR), and a Full-Stack Software Engineering Intern at FlightBridge.