My research goal is to develop deep learning models for machine cognition, including the capabilities regarding knowledge, memory, and reasoning.
I am working with Professor William W. Cohen and Professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
Prior to coming to CMU, I worked with Professor Jie Tang at Tsinghua University.

You can contact me through A@B, where A=zhiliny and B=cs.cmu.edu.

News

Paper on a novel encoder-decoder architecture accepted by NIPS 2016. Stay tuned for the final version and code.

Code for our ICML 2016 paper released.

Code and data for our IJCAI 2016 paper released.

Paper on semi-supervised learning accepted by ICML 2016 .

Paper on multi-modal Bayesian embeddings accepted by IJCAI 2016 .

Paper on sequence tagging released.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

PhD student, Computer Science, 2015 till now

Tsinghua University

BE, Computer Science, 2011-2015

Major GPA 96.8/100. Overall GPA 94.2/100. ranked No.1 among 124 students in the computer science department.

1st place. best undergraduate thesis, computer science department

Papers

Zhilin Yang. Ye Yuan, Yuexin Wu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, William W. Cohen

To Appear in Proceedings of Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016

Zhilin Yang. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, William Cohen

Zhilin Yang. William Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2016

Zhilin Yang. Jie Tang, William Cohen

In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016

Our model is deployed on AMiner for extracting research interests.

Zhanpeng Fang*, Zhilin Yang *, Yutao Zhang (* indicates equal contribution)

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop, 2015

Invited paper, competition winners.

Yutao Zhang, Jie Tang, Zhilin Yang. Jian Pei, Philip Yu

In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015

Oral presentation, acceptance rate 19%.

Zhilin Yang. Jie Tang, Yutao Zhang

In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014

Full paper, acceptance rate 21%.

Zhilin Yang. Jie Tang, Bin Xu, Chunxiao Xing

In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2014

Full-length oral presentation (5%), acceptance rate 18%.

Yang Yang, Jianfei Wang, Yutao Zhang, Wei Chen, Jing Zhang, Honglei Zhuang, Zhilin Yang. Bo Ma, Zhanpeng Fang, Sen Wu, Xiaoxiao Li, Debing Liu, Jie Tang

In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013