Emily Yuwei Bao

University of Michigan, 2015 - 2018

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

University of Michigan, 2019 - 2025 (Expected)

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering

Microsoft Research, May - Aug, 2024

Research Intern
- Mixed Reality, AI Assistant, Multimodal, Situated Dialog, Long Video Processing.
- Advisors: Dan Bohus, Sean Andrist and Eric Horvitz

Google, Jun - Aug, 2021

Software Engineer Intern (PhD)
- Search engine indexing quality improvement with Machine Learning and algorithms.

"Is This It?": Towards Ecologically Valid Benchmarks for Situated Collaboration

Dan Bohus, Sean Andrist, Yuwei Bao, Eric Horvitz, and Ann Paradiso

ICMI 2024 LBR

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Human Inspired Progressive Alignment and Comparative Learning for Grounded Word Acquisition

Yuwei Bao, Barrett Lattimer, and Joyce Chai

ACL 2023 Dribbble Github 🌟 Honorable Mentions for the Best Paper Awards

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User Modeling Challenges in Interactive AI Assistant Systems

Megan Su*, Yuwei Bao*

ICLR 2024 Tiny Paper Dribbble

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Can Foundation Models Watch, Talk and Guide You Step by Step to Make a Cake?

Yuwei Bao, Keunwoo Peter Yu, Yichi Zhang, Shane Storks, Itamar Bar-Yossef, Alex de la Iglesia, Megan Su, Xiao Lin Zheng, Joyce Chai

EMNLP 2023 Dribbble Github

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SEAGULL: An Embodied Agent for Instruction Following through Situated Dialog

Yichi Zhang, Jianing Yang, Keunwoo Peter Yu, Yinpei Dai, Shane Storks, Yuwei Bao, Jiayi Pan, Nikhil Devraj, Ziqiao Ma, Joyce Chai

Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge Proceedings, 2023 Dribbble 🌟 First Prize Award

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Learning to Mediate Disparities Towards Pragmatic Communication

Yuwei Bao, Sayan Ghosh, Joyce Chai

ACL 2022 Dribbble Github

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DANLI: Deliberative Agent for Following Natural Language Instructions

Yichi Zhang, Jianing Yang, Jiayi Pan, Shane Storks, Nikhil Devraj, Ziqiao Ma, Keunwoo Peter Yu, Yuwei Bao, Joyce Chai

EMNLP 2022 Dribbble Github

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SquiggleNet: Real-time, Direct Classification of Nanopore Signals

Yuwei Bao, Jack Wadden, John Erb-Downward, Piyush Ranjan, Weichen Zhou, Torrin McDonald, Ryan Mills, Alan Boyle, Robert Dickson, David Blaauw, Joshua Welch

Genome Biology 2021 Dribbble Github

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Clustering Anesthesiology Case Data for Machine Learning

Michael Burns, Anik Sinha, Yuwei Bao, Sean Meyer, John Vandervest, Sachin Kheterpal

MLHC 2018 Dribbble

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Rapid pathogen identification in bacterial pneumonia using real-time metagenomics

Kathryn Pendleton, John Erb-Downward, Yuwei Bao, William Branton, Nicole Falkowski, Duane Newton, Gary Huffnagle, Robert Dickson

AJRCCM 2017 Dribbble

University of Michigan College of Engineering

• [WN25] EECS 486 - Information Retrieval
• [FA20] EECS 441 - Mobile Apps Development for Entrepreneurs
• [SU20] EECS 485 - Web Systems
• [WN18] EECS 376 - Foundations of Computer Science
• [WN17] EECS 203 - Discrete Math

Program Commitee

ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop

ACL 2024 SpLU-RoboNLP Workshop Ethics Committee

ICML 2023 Theory of Mind (ToM) Workshop

Review

ARR 2024, COLM 2024, ACL/EMNLP 2023, ACL/EMNLP 2022, MLCB 2022

EMNLP 2024 Industry Track, WiNLP Workshop

Rackham Graduate Student Government, MICHIGAN

Division II: Physical Sciences and Engineering Representative

Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Student Organization (CSEG), MICHIGAN

President, Relation Chair

Graduate Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE), MICHIGAN

Networking Chair, Career Fair Chair

LSA Newnan Academic Advising Center, MICHIGAN

International Academic Peer Advisor

• [2024] Weinberg Cognitive Science Graduate Certificate
• [2023] Honorable Mentions for the ACL Best Paper Awards
• [2023] Amazon Alexa Simbot Challenge First Prize Award
• [2023] Rackham Conference Travel Grant
• [2021] Weinberg Institute of Cognitive Science Fellowship
• [2021] CSE Climate and DEI Award
• [2020] CSE GSI Award
• [2016/17/18] EECS Scholar
• [2015/16/17/18] University Honors
• [2015/16/17/18/19] James B. Angell Scholar

• ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics
• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• SWE: Society of Women Engineers
• FGE: First Generation Engineers