About Me

My name is Yilun Hua.

I’m a third-year Computer Science PhD student at Cornell University, advised by Yoav Artzi. My areas of research include dialogues and multi-turn interactions, aligning LLMs with specific users, retrieval augmented generation, and multimodal tasks. I have also been increasingly interested in tokenization and decoding-time algorithms that improve LLM efficiency. Additionally, I minor in cognitive science and am interested in the intersection of cognitive science and AI research.

In my first year at Cornell, I also worked on computational social science with Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, focusing on summarizing conversation dynamics and forecasting the derailment of online conversations. Before Cornell, I completed my B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics-Statistics at Columbia University, where I received mentorship from Kathleen McKeown and Zhou Yu.

Outside of research, I like spending time learning about art history, listening to the music from the Romantic period, and enjoying the performing arts in general.