Diyi Yang

SALT Lab

Social and Language Technologies (SALT) lab studies Socially Aware NLP, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Human-AI Interaction, with a focus on how LLMs can augment human capabilities across research, work and well-being. Our mission is to design human-centered AI systems that are not only technically capable, but also meaningfully connected to how people think, interact, and collaborate. We are part of the Stanford NLP Group.

We study AI's potential and limitations through the development of novel algorithms, large-scale human evaluations, and real-world deployments. Recent projects include auditing what workers want from AI in the workforce, evaluating LLM-generated research ideation, training counselors using AI, and building evaluation frameworks for human-agent collaboration.