Yuzhe (Toby) Yang

Learning to Learn

Hi, I am a final-year undergraduate student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where I work with Prof. Benyou Wang. I am also a visiting student at the UC Santa Barbara NLP Group, where I work with Prof. Xin Eric Wang.

My research focuses on building (multimodal) language models and agents that think and behave more like humans, especially in scalable and interactive social environments. [Read More]
e.g., Social Simulation (NeurIPS 2025), Human-AI Interaction (NAACL 2025).

Currently, I am seeking a PhD position (2026 Fall) and internship opportunities. If you are interested in my work or would like to discuss potential collaborations, please feel free to reach out and schedule time with me.

Email:
tobyyang7[at]outlook[dot]com (preferred)
yuzheyang[at]ucsb[dot]edu


Learning to Learn
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Selected Publications

Only (co-)first author papers are listed. See more on the Publications page or Google Scholar.
(* indicates equal contribution)

Experiences

UC Santa Barbara NLP Group 2025.07 – Present
Visiting Student
Advised by Prof. Xin Eric Wang
CUHK-Shenzhen NLP Group 2024.06 – Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advised by Prof. Benyou Wang and Dr. Yan Hu
Best Paper Award & Travel Grant Award (ICLR 2025 Workshop)
School of Management & Engineering, Nanjing University 2024.08 – 2025.01
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advised by Prof. Honghai Yu
TheFinAI 2024.06 – 2024.10
Researcher
School of Data Science, CUHK-Shenzhen 2023.08 – 2024.06
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Advised by Prof. Jianfeng Mao
Undergraduate Research Award (2024, 2025)
Miscellaneous

📸 I am an amateur photographer with an interest in digital, film, and aerial photography, with a special passion for landscape photography 🏔️. You can find my photos on Unsplash 🎞️. Also, you can visit my HDR photo gallery.