Yuwei Yin

PhD in CS/AI/NLP at UBC

University of British Columbia

Biography

Yuwei is a PhD student in the UBC NLP Group at the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia (Vancouver 🇨🇦). His research primarily centers on natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, and multimodality, with a current focus on mindful thinking and logical reasoning in AI systems. Résumé

Interests

Intelligence & Linguistics
Generative AI & Multimodality
Philosophy & Psychology
Cosmology & Astrophysics

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2024--Present
The University of British Columbia
B.Eng. in Computer Sci. & Tech., 2014--2018
Beijing Information Science & Technology University

Research

Google Scholar

Yuwei Yin, EunJeong Hwang, Giuseppe Carenini (2025). SWI: Speaking with Intent in Large Language Models. arXiv.

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Yuwei Yin, Giuseppe Carenini (2025). ARR: Question Answering with Large Language Models via Analyzing, Retrieving, and Reasoning. arXiv.

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Employment

Graduate Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant

The University of British Columbia

Jan 2024 – Present Vancouver, BC, Canada

Affiliation: UBC NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
Position: Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant (Full-time, Onsite, Paid)
Duty: Conducting research on natural language processing; TA in UBC CS courses.

Research Assistant

The University of Hong Kong

Oct 2022 – Dec 2023 Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Affiliation: HKU NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
Position: Research Assistant (Full-time, Onsite, Paid)
Duty: Conducted research on multimodal natural language processing and FinTech.

Research Intern

Microsoft Research

Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 Haidian, Beijing, China

Affiliation: Natural Language Computing (NLC) Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
Position: Research Intern (Full-time, Onsite, Paid)
Duty: Conducted research on multilingual neural machine translation.