I am a cofounder of Recurrent AI and an assistant professor of Tsinghua University.

The ultimate goal of all my work, including both research and business, is to maximize the value of artificial intelligence. Particularly, me and my team are working on achieving general cognitive intelligence using natural language as a key interface, i.e., human users interact with a machine using natural language for performing various cognitive tasks. We not only formulate and solve general research problems, but also build products and solutions. I believe breaking the barrier between research, engineering, and business is a crucial path towards the goal.

In 2019, I obtained my PhD degree from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Ruslan Salakhutdinov and William W. Cohen. Prior to that, in 2015, I received my bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, advised by Jie Tang. I worked at Meta AI with Jason Weston, and Google Brain with Quoc V. Le.

I am a Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 awardee, an Nvidia Fellow, a Siebel Scholar, and a BAAI Young Scientist. My projects received the Nvidia Pioneering Research Award, the Facebook ParlAI Research Award, and the Yunfa Award at the World AI Conference.

Prospective undergrad/graduate interns: Our group at Tsinghua University is actively taking undergrad and graduate research interns. Feel free to send me emails for inquiries.

Prospective PhDs: For PhD admission, I usually take top undergrad students from the IIIS summer camp held in June/July each year. If you are an undergrad interested in doing a PhD with me, please apply to the summer camp in your 3rd year. Statistically, undergraduates who have worked with me for at least 4 months have a higher chance of being accepted as my PhD student.

Prospective master's: Unfortunately, I am not taking master's students.

Reference letters: I write reference letters for students who have worked with me for at least 4 months.

Reach out to me at A@B, where A=zhiliny and B=tsinghua.edu.cn.

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我的名字是杨植麟。