Tianyu Yang
Doctoral Researcher

Research Interest
Tianyu’s current research focuses on the development of multi-modal document processing system for intelligent and automatic data ingestion. Besides, he is also interested in the general generative model and reinforcement learning.
His primary research interest can be summarized as:
- Natural Language Processing
- Reinforcement Learning
- Variational Inference
- Multi-modal Large Language Models
- Information Extraction
Contact
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SHORT CV
12/2024 – Present
Ph.D Student
University of Göttingen, Germany
08/2022 – 07/2024
Doctoral Researcher
Technichal University of Darmstadt, Germany
09/2019 – 06/2022
M.Sc. Computer Science
Civil Aviation University of China, China
09/2015 – 07/2019
B.Sc. Aircraft Manufacturing Engineering
Civil Aviation University of China, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Robust Utility-Preserving Text Anonymization Based on Large Language Models
Yang, Tianyu, Xiaodan Zhu, and Iryna Gurevych.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11770 (2024).
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Dior-CVAE: Pre-trained Language Models and Diffusion Priors for Variational Dialog Generation
Tianyu Yang, Thy Thy Tran, and Iryna Gurevych
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 4718–4735, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HTKG: Deep keyphrase generation with neural hierarchical topic guidance
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tao Jiang, Tianyu Yang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang.
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1044-1054. 2022.
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Hyperbolic deep keyphrase generation
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tianyu Yang, Tao Jiang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang
In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 521-536. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
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Boosting KG-to-Text Generation via Multi-granularity Graph Representations
Yang, Tianyu, Yuxiang Zhang, and Tao Jiang
In 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2022.
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Order-guided deep neural network for emotion-cause pair prediction
Fan, Wei, Yuexuan Zhu, Ziyun Wei, Tianyu Yang, W. H. Ip, and Yuxiang Zhang
Applied Soft Computing 112 (2021): 107818.
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NEWS
Workshop on AI-Supported Research Software Engineering
We are excited to announce the Workshop on AI-Supported Research Software Engineering, an interactive event for research software engineers and scientists engaged in developing and maintaining research software in the era of AI. When: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 - Wednesday, [...]
Virtual Research Librarian: campus | inform reports on the LibraryAI project
The current issue of campus | inform features LibraryAI, a joint research project of our group, the State and University Library Göttingen (SUB), and the GWDG. We aim to develop an AI-powered virtual librarian that supports researchers across disciplines by [...]
GippLab Joins International Research Project to Detect Fake News
How can AI help reliably identify falsified and manipulated digital content such as deepfakes, synthetic voices, and multimodal misinformation? This question is at the center of the Korean National Police Academy’s fake news project, a joint initiative involving the State Criminal Police Office, University [...]
Congratulations to Jan Philip Wahle on his successful PhD thesis defense
We are thrilled to announce that Jan Philip Wahle has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled Language Modeling and Understanding Through Paraphrase Generation and Detection. In the presence of his family, friends, and colleagues, Jan Philip delivered an outstanding presentation [...]
GippLab Presents Five Papers at EMNLP Conference in China
Our team, together with collaborators from Mercedes-Benz, eschbach, the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Police Office, and JUST ADD AI, presents the following five papers at the EMNLP conference 2025—one of the flagship conferences in NLP (CORE rank A*)—taking place in [...]
GippLab Showcases Research to DAAD President at NII Tokyo
GippLab members Dr. André Greiner-Petter and Dr. Timo Spinde had the honor of meeting Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), during his visit to the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo. During the meeting, [...]
We’re Hiring Eight New Researcher Positions
Our research group is growing, and we’re excited to announce that we are hiring up to eight new team members over the next few months. Most of these positions will start between December 2025 and March 2026. We are looking [...]
Lower Saxony Funds Project on AI in Museums with €2.25 Million
How can artificial intelligence (AI) support museums in digitally unlocking their collections? This question is being addressed by the joint project “AI in Museums”, in which our lab is involved. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) is [...]
Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture Funds Göttingen Project “EDIKILEX” with €4.5 Million
How can the literary treasures found in texts from the Early New High German period (ca. 1350–1650) be made available and useful for future research in all their breadth and depth? The interdisciplinary joint project EDIKILEX – Edition, Artificial Intelligence, [...]
Spektrum der Wissenschaft Highlights Our Research on the Future of Plagiarism Detection
How can science uphold integrity in an era where large language models (LLMs) can seamlessly disguise stolen ideas? The renowned journal Spektrum der Wissenschaft explores this question in its recent article “Das Katz-und-Maus-Spiel um die Redlichkeit” (“Cat-and-Mouse Game with [...]
Research‑Internship Opportunities at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo is Japan’s premier computer‑science research institute across different research areas. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the University of Göttingen, master’s students and PhD candidates can conduct paid research internships or [...]
GippLab wins ACL Best Paper Awards
We're excited to share that our work on multilingual resources has won two major awards at ACL 2025: Best Resource Paper and Best SemEval Task! This project was the most popular task ever hosted on Codabench, with over 700 participants, [...]
New Open-Access Book on Media Bias
We're excited to announce that the book Automated Detection of Media Bias: From the Conceptualization of Media Bias to its Computational Classification, by our team member Dr. Timo Spinde, is now available for free from Springer. The book summarizes the results [...]
Nacht des Wissens
Visit us at the Nacht des Wissens! For more information, please visit: https://www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-orten/innenstadt/ See also this video (minute 1:12): https://youtu.be/RnyqkddjSUw?si=nzm54D4riOAtMls2&t=71
Collaborative AI project with our industry partner eschbach wins twice in the German Innovation Award 2025
Shiftconnector AI Suit, which is developed as a collaborative project between eschbach and GippLab, wins the German Innovation Award 2025 in two categories, standing out of 460 submissions: AI Methods Information Technologies | Industry Specific and Service Software SAMI (Shiftconnector [...]
DFG Funds Development of a Virtual Assistant to Facilitate Research in Libraries
How can we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to fundamentally simplify researchers' access to scientific information? Our research group, the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen (SUB), and the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) aim to develop a [...]
Dr. Terry Ruas passes habilitation exam
We are excited to announce that our group member, Dr. Terry Ruas, has successfully passed his habilitation exam by demonstrating excellence in research and teaching. This great achievement has rightfully earned him the venia legendi (permission to lecture) in computer [...]
“Smart Solutions” wins Best of Industry Award 2024
We are excited to announce that a result of our longstanding research collaboration with eschbach GmbH has been awarded the Best of Industry Award in the category of Artificial Intelligence for the second time in a row. The award recognizes [...]
Talk on the Ethical Challenges of AI in Bursfelde
On Oct. 23 2024, Bela Gipp will take part in the “Bursfelde Talks” series at the Bursfelde Monastery. The panelists will discuss the theological and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence. Will AI replace us? Will AI fundamentally improve and make [...]
Federal Funding Approved for AI Research Collaboration with eschbach
We are thrilled to announce that the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has approved funding for a 30-month collaborative research project with our longstanding industry partner, eschbach, under the Central Innovation Program for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises [...]
Panel Discussion on the Future of Libraries with Prof. Bela Gipp: July 17, 17:00
Join us for an engaging and insightful panel discussion on the modern evolution and future perspectives of libraries. Date and Time: July 17, 2024, starting at 17:00 Location: Paulinerkirche, Göttingen Welcoming Address: Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan, President of the University [...]
Hats off to Philipp Scharpf for sucessfully defending his PhD
The GippLab team is delighted to share the news that Philipp Scharpf has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled Mathematical Entity Linking: Methods and Applications. Philipp's research has opened new perspectives for the field of Mathematical Information Retrieval, rightfully earning [...]
Congratulations to Timo Spinde on his successful PhD thesis defense
We are thrilled to announce that Timo Spinde has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled Automated Detection of Media Bias in News Articles: From the Conceptualization of Media Bias to its Computational Classification. In the presence of his family, friends, [...]
GippLab showcases its FPV Quadcopter Technology for Automated Fawn Rescue at IdeenExpo
Our group showcased its research on automated fawn rescue using self-designed, built, and programmed FPV quadcopters at the IdeenExpo fair in Hanover from June 8 to 16. The State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Prof. [...]
New SUB leadership: Bela Gipp appointed Scientific Director
The State and University Library Göttingen (SUB) will receive new leadership. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann and Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp will take over as the Director and Scientific Director, respectively. The Head of Library Operations, Kathrin Brannemann, and a soon-to-be-appointed [...]



























