Yun-Nung Chen

Professor Yun-Nung Chen works at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, focusing on Natural Language Processing and Dialogue Systems. With a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, their research bridges Machine Learning and Language Understanding in conversational AI.

Education

• Ph.D. in Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University (2015)
• M.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University (2011)
• B.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University (2009)

Research Trends

Recent work emphasizes Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Knowledge Editing in LLMs, and Temporal Modeling for dialogue systems. Key themes include cross-modal understanding, semantics-driven dialogue, and robust language modeling across domains.

Scientific Recognition

• Best Student Paper, IEEE ASRU 2013
• Best Student Paper, IEEE SLT 2010
• Distinguished Master Thesis, ACLCLP 2011
• Best Paper Finalist, ISCA INTERSPEECH 2012

Current projects involve StreamBench for continuous agent improvement and Taiwan LLM for culturally aligned language models.