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Yu-Chien (Tommy) Tang

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

tommytyc.cs13@nycu.edu.tw
+886-961-316-177
Hsinchu, Taiwan, TW

Summary

2nd-year Ph.D. student at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University working on large language models, information retrieval, question answering, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Present, expected 2028
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • M.S. in Computer Science
    2023
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • B.S. in Computer Science
    2021
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Work Experience

  • AI Engineer
    Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
    TSMC
    NLP, LLM, DevOps
    • Developed an LLM-driven chatbot for business intelligence use cases, including cross-document summarization and question answering with retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning Engineer Intern
    Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
    MediaTek
    NLP, Distributed Computing
    • Fine-tuned language models to automatically classify engineer queries.
  • Database and Backend Developer
    Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
    NCAP, NYCU CS
    Django, Docker, MySQL, Shell Programming, Git
    • Built database and backend systems for a LinkedIn-like platform for NCTU CS alumni communication.
  • Database Developer
    Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
    CSCA, NCTU CS

Skills

Research Areas

  • Large Language Models
  • Information Retrieval
  • Question Answering
  • Educational AI
  • Multimodal NLP

Engineering

  • Python
  • Django
  • Docker
  • MySQL
  • Shell Programming
  • Git

Publications

  • MathEDU: Feedback Generation on Problem-Solving Processes for Mathematical Learning Support
    2026
    EACL 2026
    Wei-Ling Hsu, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi Yen.
  • Obedience or Vigilance? How Large Language Models React to Malicious Multiple-Choice Options
    2026
    AAAI 2026 Student Abstract
    Yow-Fu Liou, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi Yen.
  • Template-Based Financial Report Generation in Agentic and Decomposed Information Retrieval
    2025
    SIGIR 2025
    Yong-En Tian*, Yu-Chien Tang*, Kuang-Da Wang, An-Zi Yen, Wen-Chih Peng.
  • Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: On the Extended Reading Articles Generation with LLMs
    2025
    AAAI 2025 iRAISE Workshop
    Yow-Fu Liou, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi Yen.
  • RSVP: Customer Intent Detection via Agent Response Contrastive and Generative Pre-Training
    2023
    Findings of EMNLP 2023
    Yu-Chien Tang, Wei-Yao Wang, An-Zi Yen, Wen-Chih Peng.
  • NYCU-TWO at Memotion 3: Good Foundation, Good Teacher, then You Have Good Meme Analysis
    2023
    AAAI 2023 De-Factify 2 Workshop
    Yu-Chien Tang*, Kuang-Da Wang*, Ting-Yun Ou*, Wen-Chih Peng.
  • NYCU_TWD@LT-EDI-ACL2022: Ensemble Models with VADER and Contrastive Learning for Detecting Signs of Depression from Social Media
    2022
    ACL 2022 LT-EDI Workshop
    Wei-Yao Wang*, Yu-Chien Tang*, Wei-Wei Du*, Wen-Chih Peng.

Teaching

  • Introduction to NLP
    Spring 2026
    NYCU CS
    Role: Teaching Assistant
  • Information Retrieval
    Fall 2025
    NYCU CS
    Role: Teaching Assistant
  • Introduction to NLP
    Fall 2024
    NYCU CS
    Role: Teaching Assistant
  • Data Science Project
    Fall 2022
    NYCU CS
    Role: Teaching Assistant
  • Introduction to Database System
    Spring 2021
    NCTU CS
    Role: Teaching Assistant

Service

  • Reviewer
    IJCAI'25, ACL'25, EMNLP'25, AAAI'26, ROCLING'25, EACL'26, SIGIR'26

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
    LLMs, IR, QA