Tong Yu

Tong Yu

Senior Research Scientist

San Jose, CA

Tong Yu is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research focuses on LLMs with applications in dialog systems and recommender systems. He has published papers in conferences and journals, including ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, TACL, JMLR, TKDD, TKDE, etc.

Publications

March 29, 2026 EACL 2026

A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation

Bo Ni, Yu Wang, Leyao Wang, Branislav Kveton, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Xia, Hongjie Chen, Reuben Luera, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Puneet Mathur, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Junda Wu, Li Li, Huixin Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Jiuxiang Gu, Zhengzhong Tu, Alexa Siu, Zichao Wang, David Seunghyun Yoon, Nedim Lipka, Namyong Park, Zihao Lin, Trung Bui, Yue Zhao, Tyler Derr, Ryan A. Rossi

December 7, 2025 NeurIPS 2025 MTI-LLM workshop

A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations

Li Li, Peilin Cai, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Branislav Kveton, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Linxin Song, Tiankai Yang, Yuehan Qin, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhengmian Hu, Bo Ni, Yuxiao Zhou, Zichao Wang, Yue Huang, Yu Wang, Xiangliang Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Xiyang Hu, Yue Zhao

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