Yun-Nung Vivian Chen
Professor, National Taiwan University
About
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen (陳縕儂) is a professor at National Taiwan University's Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering and founder of MiuLab. She earned her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute in 2015 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research before joining NTU. Her research spans spoken language understanding, dialogue systems, natural language processing, and multimodal AI. Her lab developed Taiwan-LLM, a large language model fine-tuned for Traditional Mandarin. She has received the K. T. Li Young Scholar Research Award, the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, and the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Award.
Key Contributions
- Founded MiuLab at NTU, building a research group around spoken language understanding, dialogue systems, NLP, and multimodal AI
- Helped develop Taiwan-LLM, giving Traditional Mandarin users and researchers a locally adapted open LLM reference point
- Created Applied Deep Learning lectures that made modern NLP and dialogue-system practice accessible beyond her lab
- Published widely in spoken-language and dialogue research while training a local generation of NLP students
- Connects academic research with industry-facing awards and cloud-provider support from Google and AWS
- Her work is important for linguistic sovereignty, though local LLMs still face the hard constraints of data, compute, evaluation, and adoption
Videos & Interviews
深度學習之應用 (2024) — Introduction
Opening lecture of the 2024 Applied Deep Learning course at NTU
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深度學習之應用 (2024) — Language Agents
Lecture on language agents and their architectures in the LLM era
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深度學習之應用 (2024) — Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Lecture covering RAG techniques for grounding LLM outputs
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