Haiyan Zhao | New Jersey Institute of Technology

About Me

I am a second-year graduate student at the Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institue of Technology(NJIT). Currently, I am working closely with Prof. Mengnan Du on model interpretablity. My research interests lie in Explainable AI(XAI), with an emphasis on large language models(LLMs). Before that I obtained my master degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST) and my bachelor degree from Wuhan University of Technology(WUT).

XAI, LLM Alignment

[04/2024] Preprint: Exploring Concept Depth: How Large Language Models Acquire Knowledge at Different Layers? (Arxiv)
[03/2024] Preprint: Usable XAI: 10 Strategies Towards Exploiting Explainability in the LLM Era (Arxiv)
[02/2024] Preprint: Towards Uncovering How Large Language Model Works: An Explainability Perspective (Arxiv)
[02/2024] Accepted: Mitigating Shortcuts in Language Models with Soft Label Encoding (COLING)
[01/2024] Accepted: The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models(ACL Findings)
[11/2023] Accepted: Explainability for Large Language Models: A Survey (TIST)
[10/2023] Invited talk @ NJIT FinTech Seminar: Explainability on LLMs
[10/2023] Invited talk @ MLLM-AI: Explainability on LLMs
[10/2023] Invited talk @ UberAI: Explainability on LLMs

Natural Language Processing (DS680), Machine Learning (DS675), Fall 2024, Computer Science (NJIT), Teaching Assistant
Natural Language Processing (DS680), Spring 2024, Computer Science (NJIT), Teaching Assistant
Natural Language Processing (DS680), Fall 2023, Computer Science (NJIT), Teaching Assistant