Xinya Du
About
I am Xinya Du, a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UT Dallas. My research focuses on in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language and Vision-Language Models (LLMs/VLMs), and Machine Learning (ML). I earned Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University. After, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My work are published in leading NLP and ML conferences, and has been covered by Major Media and included in the list of Most Influential ACL Papers. I was named a Spotlight Rising Star in Data Science. I received the Amazon Research Award, Cisco Research Award, and 2024 NSF CAREER Award.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Cornell Belief and Sentiment System at TAC 2016.
Year: 2016
Citations: 9
Venue: Text Analysis Conference
Latest Recorded Paper
Is Grokking Worthwhile? Functional Analysis and Transferability of Generalization Circuits in Transformers
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09049
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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