Welcome to my homepage! I am an undergraduate researcher at UCLA. My existing works focus on helping models understand and reason about the world by learning from multimodal data sources including text, vision, human interactions, and more. I am also interested in applying these models towards social good and scientific advancement.

I am current conducting Multimodal and NLP research at UCLA advised by Prof. Nanyun Peng and Prof. Kai-Wei Chang. Previously, I interned at Prof. Heng Ji’s group at UIUC, where I worked on Multimodal Event Graph Schema Induction (ACL 23). Before that, I was a research intern at the Knowledge Engineering Group - Tsinghua University advised by Prof. Juanzi Li.

I will graduate from UCLA in Dec. 2023, beyond which I am applying for full-time PhD positions! Please drop me a line if you think I’m a good fit. Here is my CV for your reference.

Selected Publications

Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding
Yu Zhou, Sha Li, Li Manling, Lin Xudong, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
ACL 2023

Localizing Active Objects from Egocentric Vision with Symbolic World Knowledge
Te-Lin Wu^*, Yu Zhou^* (equal contribution), Nanyun Peng
EMNLP 2023 (Oral Presentation)

For a complete list of my published papers, please refer to my publications page.

News

• [12/2023] Find me at my EMNLP 2023 Oral Presentation during 17:15 - 17:30 local time (Dec 08) at Central 1 Ballroom, Resorts World, Sentosa, Singapore. For those who are remote, please feel free to check out my spotlight video:

• [11/2023] Meet me at The SoCal NLP Symposium (Los Angeles, CA) – where I will present my lead-author works Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding and Localizing Active Objects from Egocentric Vision with Symbolic World Knowledge at the poster sessions!

• [07/2023] Find me at my ACL 2023 Poster Stand in Session 7 between 11:00 - 12:30 on Wednesday, July 12th (Frontenac Ballroom and Queen’s Quay, Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto). Also feel free to check out my virtual poster and spotlight video below:

• [02/2023] I joined PLUS Lab as an undergraduate researcher advised by Prof. Nanyun Peng at UCLA.

• [07/2022] Meet me at NAACL 2023 (Seattle, WA) – my first in-person conference!

• [02/2022] I joined BLENDER Lab as an undergraduate researcher advised by Prof. Heng Ji at UIUC.

• [02/2022] Here’s a fun demo in my recent project for CS188-DLCV adviced by Prof. Bolei Zhou:

Services

• Programme Committee / Reviewer: ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023, EMNLP 2023 Industry Track
  

• Awards Committee: SoCal NLP Symposium 2023
  

• Student Volunteer: ACL 2023