Semih Yavuz

Research Scientist, SalesForce.com
Joined
August 2019

Names

Semih Yavuz (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.ucsb.edu (Confirmed)
, 
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@salesforce.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Scientist
SalesForce.com (salesforce.com)
2019 – Present
PhD student
UC Santa Barbara (ucsb.edu)
2014 – 2019
Undergrad student
Bilkent University (bilkent.edu.tr)
2008 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Xifeng Yan
2014 – 2019

Expertise

agent memory systems
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RL post-training
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skill internalization via RL
, 
long-horizon reasoning
, 
continual learning
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open-domain question answering
, 
end-to-end dialogue
, 
task-oriented dialogue
2018 – Present
deep learning
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RNNs
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natural language processing
, 
generative models
2013 – Present
text summarization
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machine translation
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dialogue generation
, 
NLG
2013 – Present
natural language interfaces
, 
semantic parsing
, 
KB-based question answering
2013 – Present
discrete mathematics
, 
graph theory
, 
combinatorial optimization
, 
information theory
, 
additive combinatorics
2008 – 2014

Publications

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Co-Authors

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