Rate My Professor Yanchao Yu

Yu's research specializations encompass conversational AI, multimodal interaction, machine learning, and robotics. He is an active member of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) at Edinburgh Napier University and serves as the Principal Investigator for the EPSRC-funded Learning from Collaborative Storytelling (LoCS) project, where he develops and integrates multimodal knowledge extraction techniques and AI-driven storytelling frameworks. In teaching, he delivers the module 'Machine Learning for Conversational AI.' His scholarly output includes over 30 publications, with key works such as 'MoDEsT: a Modular Dialogue Experiments and Demonstration Toolkit' (2023, ACM), 'Coronabot: A Conversational AI System for Tackling Misinformation' (2021), 'Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction' (2021), 'Interactive Learning through Dialogue for Multimodal Language Grounding' (2015), and contributions to conferences like LREC and AAAI Symposium. His research has accumulated 278 citations on Google Scholar. Yu also supervises PhD students in AI-related topics, including mitigating LLM-generated disinformation via machine unlearning and multimodal LLMs in ER diagram evaluation.