Leyao Wang

Leyao Wang

Leyao (Laura) Wang


Welcome! I am Leyao(Laura) Wang, a senior student at Vanderbilt University double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, with a minor in Data Science. I am currently advised by Dr. Tyler Derr at Vanderbilt Network Data Science (NDS) Lab and Dr. Pranam Chatterjee in The Programmable Biology Group (PBG) at Duke University. In the past, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Zhijun Yin in the Vanderbilt SPHERE lab.

Research Interests

My research interests mainly focus on Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, including:

  • Trustworthy AI: Enhancing the robustness of large language models (LLM) and aligning them with human values through fine-tuning, in-context learning (ICL), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), etc.
  • Data-Centric AI: Utilizing large language models (LLM) to tackle data quality challenges, including class imbalance, data sparsity, and missing values, through advanced text generation techniques.
  • AI for Science: Applying large language models (LLM) in scientific domains, such as encoding molecule or peptide sequences for chemical property representation.

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