Hi, I'm Taiwei Shi

I'm a Ph.D. student at USC
Taiwei Shi is a Ph.D. student at University of Southern California, advised by Professor Jieyu Zhao. Previously, he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Computer Science degree. He is from Dongguan, China.
At Georgia Tech, he was fortunate to be advised by Professors Mark Riedl and Diyi Yang. He spent some of his summers doing research at Microsoft Research and USC ISI.
His research interest mainly revolves around natural language processing and computational social science. Recently, he is particularly excited about reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and human-AI interaction.

Featured Research Publications

Latest research for fans of natural language processing.

Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning via Adaptive Curriculum Learning
Preprint 2025
Enabling LLMs to Reason About Uncertainty
EMNLP Findings 2025
Aligning LLMs With In-situ User Interactions And Feedback
Preprint 2024
Discovering Knowledge Deficiencies of Language Models on Massive Knowledge Base
COLM 2025
Introducing computer-using agents with coding as actions, a novel paradigm for task automation.
Preprint 2025
Safer-Instruct Aligning Language Models with Automated Preference Data
NAACL 2024