Zhou Yu
Associate
Professor
Zhou Yu is an Associate Professor at Columbia University Computer Science Department. She obtained her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017. Dr. Yu has built various dialog systems with major practical impacts, such as a job interview training system, a depression screening system, an Alexa social chatbot, and a second language learning system. Her research interest includes dialog systems, language understanding and generation, vision and language, human-computer interaction, and social robots. Dr. Yu's work earned a 2019 ACL best paper award nomination. She was recognized in the Forbes 2018 30 under 30 in Science and won the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize. Zhou also is the CEO of Aritculate AI Inc which is a startup focusing on providing online second-language communication training using AI.