Ivory Yang

CS @ Dartmouth

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ivory.yang.gr [at] dartmouth.edu

Hello! I am a Master’s student in Computer Science at Dartmouth, where I am part of the Minds, Machines and Society lab led by Prof. Soroush Vosoughi. My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and AI Alignment, particularly in the detection of persuasion and enhancement of LLM defenses against persuasive attempts.

In what feels like a different lifetime, I received my Bachelor’s of Business Administration and Bachelor’s of Science in Cognitive Science from the University of Michigan. I worked briefly in finance and start-ups in San Francisco, where I was inspired by the vibrant tech scene to take Computer Science courses at Harvard and Stanford. Eventually, I made the leap of faith to formally return to school.

Given my unconventional journey, I am always excited to connect with others and listen to different perspectives. Feel free to reach out if you would like to collaborate!

news

Jan 23, 2025 Two papers were just accepted at NAACL 2025, one as first author and one as third! Pre-prints are being uploaded to Arxiv, stay tuned ~
Nov 29, 2024 My paper on the Nüshu endangered language is accepted at COLING 2025! This marks my first first-author paper at a major NLP conference!
Nov 20, 2024 Honored to be awarded a $3500 Thomas D. Sayles Research Grant by the Dartmouth Ethics Institute!
Aug 01, 2024 My paper is accepted at WiNLP @ EMNLP 2024! Thankful for the travel grant provided by WiNLP to attend EMNLP in Miami.
May 16, 2024 My very first paper is accepted at ACL’24 main conference! Grateful to my first author, Yuxin, for the collaboration opportunity :white_heart:

selected publications

  1. NAACL
    Is it Navajo? Accurate Language Detection in Endangered Athabaskan Languages
    Ivory Yang, Weicheng Ma, Chunhui Zhang, and Soroush Vosoughi
    NAACL (main conference, oral), 2025
  2. NAACL
    Communication is All You Need: Persuasion Dataset Construction via Multi-LLM Communication
    Weicheng Ma, Hefan Zhang, Ivory Yang, Shiyu Ji, and 7 more authors
    NAACL (main conference, oral), 2025
  3. COLING
    NüshuRescue: Revitalization of the Endangered Nüshu Language with AI
    Ivory Yang, Weicheng Ma, and Soroush Vosoughi
    COLING (main conference, oral), 2025
  4. ACL
    MentalManip: A Dataset For Fine-grained Analysis of Mental Manipulation in Conversations
    Yuxin Wang, Ivory Yang, Saeed Hassanpour, and Soroush Vosoughi
    ACL (main conference, oral), 2024
  5. EMNLP
    Enhanced Detection of Conversational Mental Manipulation Through Advanced Prompting Techniques
    Ivory Yang, Xiaobo Guo, Sean Xie, and Soroush Vosoughi
    EMNLP (WiNLP), 2024