Weiyan Shi
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor,
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Research Focus
Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Education
- PhD, Computer Science, Columbia University, 2023
Research Overview
Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- FAIR, Anton Bakhtin*, Noam Brown*, Emily Dinan*, Gabriele Farina, Colin Flaherty*, Daniel Fried, Andrew Goff, Jonathan Gray*, Hengyuan Hu*, Athul Paul Jacob*, Mojtaba Komeili, Karthik Konath, Minae Kwon, Adam Lerer*, Mike Lewis*, Alexander H. Miller*, Sasha Mitts, Adithya Renduchintala*, Stephen Roller, Dirk Rowe, Weiyan Shi*, Joe Spisak, Alexander Wei, David Wu*, Hugh Zhang*, Markus Zijlstra, “Human-Level Play in the Game of Diplomacy by Combining Language Models with Strategic Reasoning,” Science Magazine, 2022
- Weiyan Shi, Ryan Shea, Si Chen, Chiyuan Zhang, Ruoxi Jia, Zhou Yu, “Just Fine-tune Twice: Selective Differential Privacy for Large Language Models,” Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022
- Maximillian Chen, Weiyan Shi, Feifan Yan, Ryan Hou, Jingwen Zhang, Saurav Sahay, Zhou Yu, “Seamlessly Integrating Factual Information and Social Content with Persuasive Dialogue,” Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL-IJCNLP), 2022
- Liang Qiu, Yizhou Zhao, Yuan Liang, Pan Lu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu, Song-Chun Zhu, “Towards Socially Intelligent Agents with Mental State Transition and Human Utility,” Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2022
- Weiyan Shi, Aiqi Cui, Evan Li, Ruoxi Jia, Zhou Yu, “Selective Differential Privacy for Language Modeling,” North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2022

Nov 07, 2024
Using Persuasion Dialogues To Improve AI Safety
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi joined the College of Engineering in fall 2024 and has already made headlines. She was named to the MIT Tech Review 35 Innovators Under 30 and received two Association for Computational Linguistics paper awards addressing AI safety issues.

Sep 12, 2024
Shi Selected for 35 Innovators Under 35
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi was named as one of MIT’s Tech Review 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in artificial intelligence and her research in natural language processing and persuasive dialogues.

Aug 20, 2024
Double Paper Win at ACL 2024
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi received two awards for papers at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) annual meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.

Aug 14, 2024
New Faculty Spotlight: Weiyan Shi
Weiyan Shi joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2024 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Khoury.