Tianyi (Tenney) Hu

I am a second-year MsC student in the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen, advised by Daniel Hershcovich and Maria Maistro. I am also fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Xinlei He and Hung-yi Lee. Before that, I was a Researcher and Engineer 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 in 2019.

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Research Interests

I'm currently interested in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, particularly in areas such as Human-Centered NLP, Multicultural and MultiLingual NLP, Computational Social Science, NLP for Positive Social Impact and Trustworthy NLP. Over the past year, my research has primarily focused on Cross-cultural NLP to assist people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

News

• [2024.12] One paper accepted to AAAI 2025, congratulations and thanks to my collaborator, Jingyi.


• [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.

Publications

• 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 My Cat

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