CV
Yu-Chien (Tommy) Tang
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
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 SciencePresent, expected 2028National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- M.S. in Computer Science2023National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- B.S. in Computer Science2021National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Work Experience
- AI EngineerJan 2024 - Apr 2025TSMCNLP, 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 InternSep 2022 - Mar 2023MediaTekNLP, Distributed Computing
- Fine-tuned language models to automatically classify engineer queries.
- Database and Backend DeveloperJul 2021 - Jun 2022NCAP, NYCU CSDjango, Docker, MySQL, Shell Programming, Git
- Built database and backend systems for a LinkedIn-like platform for NCTU CS alumni communication.
- Database DeveloperJul 2019 - Jan 2021CSCA, 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 Support2026
- Obedience or Vigilance? How Large Language Models React to Malicious Multiple-Choice Options2026
- Template-Based Financial Report Generation in Agentic and Decomposed Information Retrieval2025
- Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: On the Extended Reading Articles Generation with LLMs2025
- RSVP: Customer Intent Detection via Agent Response Contrastive and Generative Pre-Training2023
- NYCU-TWO at Memotion 3: Good Foundation, Good Teacher, then You Have Good Meme Analysis2023AAAI 2023 De-Factify 2 WorkshopYu-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 Media2022
Teaching
- Introduction to NLPSpring 2026NYCU CSRole: Teaching Assistant
- Information RetrievalFall 2025NYCU CSRole: Teaching Assistant
- Introduction to NLPFall 2024NYCU CSRole: Teaching Assistant
- Data Science ProjectFall 2022NYCU CSRole: Teaching Assistant
- Introduction to Database SystemSpring 2021NCTU CSRole: Teaching Assistant
Service
- ReviewerIJCAI'25, ACL'25, EMNLP'25, AAAI'26, ROCLING'25, EACL'26, SIGIR'26
Interests
- Natural Language ProcessingLLMs, IR, QA