Howard Yen

Hi I'm Howard!

I'm a Computer Science PhD student at Princeton University, advised by Professor Danqi Chen. Previously, I also obtained my BSE from Princeton in 2023. I'm part of the Princeton Natural Language Processing Group and Princeton Language and Intelligence. I'm grateful for being supported by the William A. Dippel ’50 *55 Graduate Fellowship. You can find a copy of my CV here.

My research focuses on improving language technologies with an emphasis on reasoning, attribution, and efficiency. Previously, I have developed long-context and reasoning-intensive benchmarks (HELMET, BRIGHT) as well as long-context language modeling methods (CEPE, ProLong). Recently, I'm particularly excited about the potential of integrating information retrieval and language models. Please check out my Google Scholar for a full list of my publications.

In my free time, I like to run, read, cook, and (occasionally) play badminton and soccer. I also enjoy learning languages—am currently studying Taiwanese (台語) and Japanese (日本語).