About me



Hi, my name is Yinpei Dai (戴音培), and I am a second year Ph.D. student at Situated Language and Embodied Dialogue (SLED) Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, I was a senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba DAMO Academy. I received my M.S. degree in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. at Speech Processing and Machine Intelligence (SPMI) lab, advised by Professor Zhijian Ou. I received my B.S. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University in 2016.

My main interest is embodied AI. I am especially interested in vision & language navigation, human-robot interaction and multi-modal dialog systems.

Contact: daiyp [at] umich.edu

[Github] [Curriculum Vitae] [Google Scholar]

Education



Sep. 2022 - present

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering.
  • Advisor: Prof. Joyce Chai
Sep. 2016 - Jul.2019

Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • M.S. in Information and Communication Engineering.
  • Advisor: Prof. Zhijian Ou
Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2016

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • B.S. in Mathematics and Physics.
  • Research assistant in Prof. Zhijian Ou's group.

Selected Publications



Think, Act, and Ask: Open-World Interactive Personalized Robot Navigation

Yinpei Dai, Run Peng, Sikai Li, Joyce Chai

In ICRA 2024

GALAXY: A Generative Pre-trained Model for Task-Oriented Dialog with Semi-Supervised Learning and Explicit Policy Injection

Wanwei He*, Yinpei Dai*, Yinhe Zheng, Yuchuan Wu, Zheng Cao, Dermot Liu, Peng Jiang, Min Yang, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Jian Sun, Yongbin Li

In AAAI 2022

Preview, Attend and Review: Schema-Aware Curriculum Learning for Multi-Domain Dialog State Trackings

Yinpei Dai, Hangyu Li, Yongbin Li, Jian Sun, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Xiaodan Zhu

In ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Transferable Dialogue Systems and User Simulators

Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yinpei Dai, Florian Kreyssig, Bill Byrne

In ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Unsupervised Learning of Deterministic Dialogue Structure with Edge-Enhanced Graph Auto-Encoder

Yajing Sun, Yong Shan, Chengguang Tang, Yue Hu, Yinpei Dai, Jing Yu, Jian Sun, Fei Huang, Luo Si

In AAAI 2021

Learning low-resource end-to-end goal-oriented dialog for fast and reliable system deployment

Yinpei Dai, Hangyu Li, Chengguang Tang, Yongbin Li, Jian Sun, Xiaodan Zhu

In ACL 2020

Deep Learning for Language Understanding of Mental Health Concepts Derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Lina Rojas-Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yinpei Dai, Clare Mansfield, Osman Ramadan, Stefan Ultes, Michael Crawford, Milica Gašić

In LOUHI Workshop @ EMNLP 2018

Tracking of Enriched Dialog States for Flexible Conversational Information Access

Yinpei Dai, Zhijian Ou, Dawei Ren, Pengfei Yu

In ICASSP 2018

Experience



Work Experience

  • Senior Algorithm Engineer in DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group. 07/2019 - 07/2022.
          Working at Language Technology Lab
          Focused on R&D in conversational AI and advancing the state-of-the-art in task-oriented dialog systems.

  • Research Assistant in Speech Processing and Machine Intelligence Lab, Tsinghua University. 09/2016 - 07/2019.
          Advised by Prof. Zhijian Ou
          Built a Chinese multi-domain task-oriented dialogue system with enriched dialogue state tracking.

  • Research intern in Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge. 06/2018 - 09/2018.
          Advised by Prof. Milica Gašić
          Built a psychotherapy-oriented chatbot for mental health.

  • Research Assistant in Speech Processing and Machine Intelligence Lab, Tsinghua University. 10/2014 - 07/2016.
          Advised by Prof. Zhijian Ou
          Studied approximation methods for inference and learning in state-space models.

    • Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant for 30230783 Probability and Stochastic Processes (2), THU. Fall 2016.
  • Teaching Assistant for 30230742 Probability and Stochastic Processes (1), THU. Spring 2017.
  • Teaching Assistant for 30230672 Computer Program Design (1), THU. Fall 2017.
  • Teaching Assistant for 80230652 Theory and Applications of Probabilistic Graphical Models, THU. Spring 2018.
    		•