Tianyi (Tenney) Hu

I will be joining the CLAN Lab, Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University September 2025 as a PhD student in Natural Language Processing under the supervision of Akhil Arora. I received my Master’s degree from the University of Copenhagen, advised by Daniel Hershcovich and Maria Maistro. During my Master’s studies, I also had the privilege of visiting National Taiwan University.
Before that, I was a Senior Researcher in Basic Search Team at Baidu Search during 2018-2022, where I worked on improving the timeliness of the search engine. I recieved my BSc in Software Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China in 2019.

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Research Interests

My PhD research will focus on leveraging LLMs to support human knowledge-seeking. I'm currently interested in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, particularly in areas such as Human-Centered NLP, Computational Social Science, and cultural studies in NLP.
If you are interested in any of these research areas, I would be happy to discuss potential collaborations. If you think my experiences might be helpful to you, I am also open to informal conversations and am glad to offer support,especially to individuals from underrepresented groups.

News

• [2025.09] I'm excited to officially announce that I will start my PhD at CLAN Lab, Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University.


• [2025.06] I’m pleased to have graduated from the University of Copenhagen with an excellent GPA (11.7/12.0). I received the highest possible grade for my Master’s thesis. Check out my graduation Photo — and my shark buddy 🦈


• [2024.12] One paper accepted to AAAI 2025.


• [2024.10] I am awarded Diversity and Inclusion Award of EMNLP 2024.


• [2024.10] One paper accepted to EMNLP 2024.


• [2024.09] I am granted the Demark Governmental Scholarship for outstanding academic performance in my first year of study.


• [2024.09] I start exchange study at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan for one semester.

Selected Publications

• Culinary Crossroads: A RAG Framework for Enhancing Diversity in Cross-Cultural Recipe Adaptation
  Tianyi Hu, Andrea Morales-Garzón, Jingyi Zheng, Maria Maistro, Daniel Hershcovich
  Arxiv preprint, 2025
  


• CHASM: Unveiling Covert Advertisements on Chinese Social Media
  Jingyi Zheng*, Tianyi Hu*, Yule Liu, Zhen Sun, Zongmin Zhang, Wenhan Dong, Zifan Peng, Xinlei He
  NIPS 2025, under review
  


• Bridging Cultures in the Kitchen: A Framework and Benchmark for Cross-Cultural Recipe Retrieval
  Tianyi Hu, Maria Maistro, Daniel Hershcovich
  EMNLP 2024
  


• CL-Attack: Textual Backdoor Attacks via Cross-Lingual Triggers
  Jingyi Zheng*, Tianyi Hu*, Tianshuo Cong, Xinlei He
  AAAI 2025
  

About Me

• I have a lovely cat named ZhuZhu (literally: Piggy).
  


• Outside of work, I enjoy traveling, reading, cooking, movies (especially art films), video games, and anime. I'm also a fan of Chinese historical fan fiction (历史同人). I love football and basketball, as well as watching other sports like tennis and F1.