Scholar
Yifan HOU
Google Scholar ID: Bm23WyIAAAAJ
ETH Zürich
Citations & Impact
Citations
452
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
18
Co-authors
17
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Paper Award at MRL Workshop 2022 for 'Adapters for Enhanced Modeling of Multilingual Knowledge and Text'
- Outstanding Reviewer at ICML 2022
- SDSC Ph.D. Fellowship 2022
- Faculty Outstanding MPhil Thesis Award from CUHK 2020
- Student Travel Award from KDD 2019
- Outstanding Graduates Award from HUST 2018
- China National Scholarship 2016
- Reviewer for top-tier conferences: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLM
- Published multiple papers at ICML 2025, EMNLP 2023/2025, ACL 2021/2024, etc.
Research Experience
- Research Intern at Meta AI (Oct 2024 – Feb 2025)
- Visiting Researcher at EPFL (Summers 2022 & 2023)
- Remote Intern at TTIC (Summer 2020)
- Research Intern at NUS (Summer 2019)
- Exchange Program at UIUC (Summer 2017)
Background
- Final-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
- Research focuses on how AI systems can perceive the world like humans and reason in interpretable ways
- Key research areas: vision-language models, interpretability, and reasoning
- Believes trustworthy AI must be grounded in real-world perception with transparent mechanisms
- On the academic job market for tenure-track positions starting Fall 2026/2027; open to research visits, talks, and collaborations
