Yuzhe (Toby) Yang

Learning to Learn

Hi, I am Yuzhe (Toby) Yang (阳雨哲). I am currently a final-year CS undergrad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and a visiting student at the UCSB NLP Group, where I work with Prof. Xin Eric Wang. At CUHK-Shenzhen, I have been fortunate to be advised by Prof. Benyou Wang and to collaborate closely with Prof. Honghai Yu’s team at Nanjing University. I was also a researcher of TheFinAI, led by Jimin Huang. Prior to that, I had the opportunity to work with Prof. Jianfeng Mao.

I have published several papers at top-tier conferences including NeurIPS, EMNLP, NAACL, ICCV, and received the Best Paper Award at the ICLR Workshop. My research focuses on: Human-AI Interaction (UCFE), Agent (EvoPresent), Trustworthy NLP (SAE-free), and Socially Aware NLP (TwinMarket).

Currently, I am seeking a PhD position (2026 Fall). I am also open to research collaborations. If you are interested in my work or would like to discuss potential collaboration opportunities, please feel free to reach out and schedule time with me.

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My vision is to build reliable and trustworthy AI systems that serve as a bridge between machine intelligence and human society. I am dedicated to enhancing the social intelligence of (vision) language models, empowering them to not only understand the principles of the physical world but also to gain insight into complex social environments, enabling reliable and meaningful interactions with humans.

Selected Publications

Discover more on Publications page or Google Scholar. (* indicates equal contribution)

Experiences

UCSB NLP Group 2025.07 – Present
Visiting Student
Advised by Prof. Xin Eric Wang
CUHK-Shenzhen NLP Group 2024.06 – Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advised by Prof. Benyou Wang and Dr. Yan Hu
Best Paper Award & Travel Grant Award (ICLR 2025 Workshop)
School of Management & Engineering, Nanjing University 2024.08 – 2025.01
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advised by Prof. Honghai Yu
TheFinAI 2024.06 – 2024.10
Researcher
Led by Jimin Huang and Prof. Qianqian Xie
School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen 2023.08 – 2024.06
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advised by Prof. Jianfeng Mao
Undergraduate Research Award (2024, 2025)
Miscellaneous

📸 I am an amateur photographer with an interest in digital, film, and aerial photography, with a special passion for landscape photography 🏔️. You can find my photos on Unsplash 🎞️. Also, you can visit my HDR photo gallery.