Yangfeng Ji is the William Wulf Career Enhancement Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science @ UVa, where he leads the Information and Language Processing (ILP) lab. He is interested in building machine learning models for text understanding and generation.
From Aug. 2016 to Jul. 2018, Yangfeng Ji was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering @ UW, where he worked with Noah Smith. He finished his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Computational Linguistics Lab at Georgia Tech. His Ph.D. advisor was Jacob Eisenstein.
About the UVa Information and Language Processing (ILP) lab, please visit the lab webpage.
He maintains a blog with his students on their lab webpage, and also writes about AI on Medium.