Yikang Shen

Overview

Yikang Shen

Title

Staff Research Scientist, LLM

Location

IBM Research - Cambridge Cambridge, MA USA

Bio

Yikang Shen obtained a Ph.D. in Mila lab at the University of Montreal and received the ICLR 2019 best paper award. His research lies in natural language processing and machine learning, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms that allow deep learning methods to understand the latent structure of human language and model its compositional phenomenons. He has over 20 publications in top-tier conferences and journals, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, and AAAI.

Publications

Projects

Dromedary

Training language models to better follow user intentions and make them more truthful

Top collaborators

DC
David D. Cox

David D. Cox

VP, AI Models; IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
RP
Ruchir Puri

Ruchir Puri

Chief Scientist, IBM Research; IBM Fellow; Vice President, IBM Technology & Technical Community