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 and developed Taiwan-LLM for Traditional Mandarin
- Research in spoken dialogue systems, NLU, and multimodal applications
- Received K. T. Li Young Scholar Research Award and Ta-You Wu Memorial Award
- Created the Applied Deep Learning course series freely available on YouTube
- Won Google Faculty Research Award and AWS Machine Learning Research Award
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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