Diyi Yang

Affiliated Faculty

Diyi Yang is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford, affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group, Stanford HCI Group, Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). She is interested in socially aware natural language processing. Her research goal is to better understand human communication in social context and build socially aware language technologies to support human-human and human-computer interaction.

TaskNet

Understanding how AI is reshaping work requires an accurate account of the tasks workers perform. We introduce the Stanford Task Network (TaskNet), an occupational taxonomy grounded directly in workers’ accounts of their everyday work.

Researchers: Jennifer Wang, Andreas Haupt, Isaac Robinson, Phil Lewis, Erik Brynjolfsson, Diyi Yang, Adam Gill, Luca Vendraminelli, Andrew Wang, Natania Wong