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Dr. Yuanyuan Lei is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Florida. Her research direction is Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence. Her research vision is to develop innovative algorithms and systems for knowledge-aware language modeling, enriching LLMs with diverse forms of knowledge to advance reasoning and planning capabilities of LLMs, as well as ensure trustworthiness and safety alignment of LLMs. She is also interested in NLP / LLMs + X research, integrating NLP models and LLMs into various domains such as science, engineering, healthcare, law etc. Her research works have been published in top venues, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL etc. She was awarded the Rising Stars in Data Science by the University of Chicago, and Future Research Leaders in Artificial Intelligence by the University of Michigan.

Primary Research Area:

Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models

Research Areas:

Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Modality Learning

Research Interests:

• Knowledge-aware LLMs: enriching LLMs with diverse forms of knowledge to improve knowledge extraction and understanding
• Reasoning and Planning in LLMs: advancing LLMs capabilities in complex logical reasoning and strategic planning tasks
• Trustworthiness and Safety Alignment of LLMs: ensuring factuality, truthfulness, trustworthiness, and safety alignment of LLMs
• Multi-Modality Learning: innovating large multi-modal models for content understanding across language, vision, audio modalities
• NLP / LLMs + X: integrating NLP models and LLMs into various domains such as science, engineering, healthcare, law, etc.

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