CV
Education
Ph.D in Computer Science, Stanford University, Sept 2018 -
B.S. in Computer Science and Philosophy, summa cum laude, Dartmouth College, 2014 - 2018
- Thesis: Time-space Tradeoffs for the Memory Game
- Advisor: Amit Chakrabarti
Publications
- Theoretical Analysis of Self-Training with Deep Networks on Unlabeled Data
- Colin Wei, Kendrick Shen, Yining Chen, Tengyu Ma
- Manuscript arXiv:2010.03622
- Active Online Domain Adaptation
- Yining Chen, Haipeng Luo, Tengyu Ma, Chicheng Zhang
- ICML 2020 Workshops on Continual Learning, Lifelong Learning, and Real World Experiment Design and Active Learning arXiv:2006.14481
- Heteroskedastic and Imbalanced Deep Learning with Adaptive Regularization
- Kaidi Cao, Yining Chen, Junwei Lu, Nikos Arechiga, Adrien Gaidon, Tengyu Ma
- ICML 2020 Workshop on Extreme Classification arXiv:2006.15766
- Self-training Avoids Using Spurious Features Under Domain Shift
- Yining Chen*, Colin Wei* (equal contribution), Ananya Kumar, Tengyu Ma
- NeuRIPS 2020 arXiv:2006.10032
- Weakly Supervised Disentanglement with Guarantees
- Rui Shu, Yining Chen, Abhishek Kumar, Stefano Ermon, Ben Poole
- ICLR 2020 arXiv:1910.09772
- Recurrent Neural Networks as Weighted Language Recognizers
- Yining Chen, Sorcha Gilroy, Andreas Maletti, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight
- Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2018, Outstanding Paper Award arXiv:1711.05408
- k-Survivability: Diversity and Survival of Expendable Robots
- Yu-Han Lyu, Yining Chen, Devin Balkcom
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2016
- Right‐hand Polarized 4fce Auroral Roar Emissions: 1. Observations
- J. LaBelle, Yining Chen
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 2016
Awards
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2018 - 2021
- Francis L. Town Scientific Prize, Dartmouth College, 2016
- Dartmouth Hackathon First Place, 2016
- High School Mathematical Modeling Contest (HiMCM) Finalist, World Rank 9-27, 2014
- Olympiad Programming Contest (NOIP) National First Prize, 2010, 2011
- Olympiad Programming Contest (NOIP) Provincial Top Female Contestant Award, 2010
Teaching
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mar 2020 – June 2020
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- CS 229: Machine Learning
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Jan 2016 – June 2018
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- CS 30: Discrete Math
- CS 31: Algorithms
Work experience
- Software Engineering Intern, June 2016 – Sept 2016
- Google, Mountain View, CA
Service and leadership
- Reviewer for NeurIPS 2020, ICML 2020, NeurIPS 2019 Workshop
Skills
- Pytorch, Tensorflow, Spark