Tianyu Yang2025-02-17T15:30:28+01:00

Tianyu Yang

Doctoral Researcher

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Research Interest

Tianyu’s current research focuses on the development of multi-modal document processing system for intelligent and automatic data ingestion. Besides, he is also interested in the general generative model and reinforcement learning.

His primary research interest can be summarized as:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Variational Inference
  • Multi-modal Large Language Models
  • Information Extraction

SHORT CV

12/2024 – Present

Ph.D Student
University of Göttingen, Germany

08/2022 – 07/2024

Doctoral Researcher
Technichal University of Darmstadt, Germany

09/2019 – 06/2022

M.Sc. Computer Science
Civil Aviation University of China, China

09/2015 – 07/2019

B.Sc. Aircraft Manufacturing Engineering
Civil Aviation University of China, China

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Robust Utility-Preserving Text Anonymization Based on Large Language Models
Yang, Tianyu, Xiaodan Zhu, and Iryna Gurevych.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11770 (2024).
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Dior-CVAE: Pre-trained Language Models and Diffusion Priors for Variational Dialog Generation
Tianyu Yang, Thy Thy Tran, and Iryna Gurevych
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 4718–4735, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HTKG: Deep keyphrase generation with neural hierarchical topic guidance
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tao Jiang, Tianyu Yang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang.
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1044-1054. 2022.
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Hyperbolic deep keyphrase generation
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tianyu Yang, Tao Jiang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang
In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 521-536. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
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Boosting KG-to-Text Generation via Multi-granularity Graph Representations
Yang, Tianyu, Yuxiang Zhang, and Tao Jiang
In 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2022.
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Order-guided deep neural network for emotion-cause pair prediction
Fan, Wei, Yuexuan Zhu, Ziyun Wei, Tianyu Yang, W. H. Ip, and Yuxiang Zhang
Applied Soft Computing 112 (2021): 107818.
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NEWS

BUW introduces Bela Gipp as new professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering

Dr. Bela Gipp, previously Junior-Professor of Information Science at the University of Konstanz, has been appointed Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal.   You can find the German press release here.   At the School of [...]

Launch event of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD)

The Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD) has officially launched at the University of Wuppertal, on March 25th, 2019. Our group is excited to be closely associated with this newly founded center, and Bela Gipp is looking [...]

Funding granted for a 3-year, interdisciplinary research project

The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded us 3-year research grant for the project „Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment of Media Bias“ The project aims to automatically identify specific instances of media bias, thus ultimately helping [...]

German supreme court cites our research in its ruling on dashcam recordings

If you have ever browsed viral videos, chances are, you have come across accident footage recorded by dashcams. Dashboard cameras, or Dashcams, have become increasingly wide-spread among motorists. Especially in countries where drivers are more likely to ignore the rules [...]

Talk on blockchain technologies at the ‘Bodensee Mittelstand 4.0’ talk series

Bela Gipp will give a talk on blockchain technologies and visions at the event 'Blockchain – eine Kette an Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen' organized by the Wirtschaftsförderung Bodenseekreis and the competence centre cyberLAGO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fxb6QgHIDg  

Project ‘Open Legal Data’ wins faculty4makers Challenge 2017/18

The project openlegaldata.io founded by our group member (doctoral researcher) Malte Schwarzer has won the 1st price of this year’s faculty4makers challenge. The competition was organized by Technische Universität Berlin for DIY-projects that students carry out in their spare time outside of the [...]

Talk on the immutable research data trail at conference on Blockchain for Science

Bela Gipp gave a talk about the immutable research data trail at the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation held on 5-6 November in Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNVXc_2uJc

The eCoach teaching innovation project receives funding from Wikimedia Germany, the Stifterverband, and the Volkswagen Stiftung

eCoach, an abbreviation for Electronic Coding Assigments Checker, is a teaching innovation project initiated at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz. In 2017, the Department of Computer and Information Science provided seed funding to the eCoach project. The [...]

Blockchain Innovation: Collaboration with the International Blockchain Competition

Bela Gipp will serve as the University partner for the world’s largest ‘Blockchain Competition’ organized by the Swiss investor group Lakeside Partners AG. The call for entries is now open. Organizers are looking forward to receiving many submissions describing innovative [...]

Research cooperation with Human Bios International AG on blockchain-based security technologies

The Human Bios International AG is announcing a research cooperation with our group to explore the use of blockchain technology for security applications. In the scope of the cooperation, Human Bios is providing research stipends for up to four PhD positions within [...]

Norman Meuschke represents ACM SIGIR at the 50th Turing Award Celebration

The Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has selected Norman Meuschke as one of ten students to represent SIGIR at the 50th ACM Turing Award Celebration in San Francisco, on June 23 - [...]

Talk at the department of computer science at the TUM Research Center Garching

Bela Gipp will give a talk on “Building Applications on the Blockchain of Crypto Currencies”, at the Department of Computer Science, TUM Forschungszentrum Garching on November 5th, 2016, at 11:00 in lecture hall #2. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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