Diyi Yang
Computer scientist, Stanford University
Signed the letter · Academia · United States
Assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, working on natural language processing and computational social science. Co-author of 'Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce' (2025) and of 'When large language models are reliable for judging empathic communication' (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2026). Recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2022), a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, an ONR Young Investigator Award (2023), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2024). PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
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25 works in the co-authorship map · 7,680 citations across them
Sources
- “Assistant Professor of Computer Science” — source
- Diyi Yang - Stanford HAI
- Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce
- When large language models are reliable for judging empathic communication
- “Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter” — source
In the network
11 co-authors on the map · PageRank #19 of 400 · bridge #19 of 400 · 1 step from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: Foundation models and society.
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Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown
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Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown
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Will AI widen inequality? unknown
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Should governments act on AI now? unknown
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How fast will the impact arrive? unknown
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Selected work
- Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce
- When large language models are reliable for judging empathic communication
- TaskNet: Building Occupational Task Inventories from Worker Interviews at Scale
In the research collection
Writes with
Jiaao Chen (4), Yijia Shao (4), Michael S. Bernstein (2), David Nguyen (1), Deb Roy (1), Emma Brunskill (1), Eric Horvitz (1), Erik Brynjolfsson (1), James Landay (1), Jiaxin Pei (1), Johannes C. Eichstaedt (1)
Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (11 of 11 shown).
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