Yang Yajing

Yang Yajing

PhD Candidates / Specialist Data Scientist

National University of Singapore

Rio Tinto

Biography

Yang Yajing is 2nd year PhD student at WING-NUS, and a specialist data scientist at Rio Tinto. Her research interests include Data-to-Text Generation and Document Summarization in the financial field. Her current work focuses on enabling Natural Language Generation models with temporal reasoning capability, which is required by the time-series nature of most financial data.

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Interests
  • Data-to-text Generation
  • Document Summarization
  • Information Retrieval
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2020 - Present

    National University of Singapore

  • Master of Computing, 2017 - 2018

    National University of Singapore

  • BEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2011 - 2015

    Nanyang Technological University

Projects

Data-to-Text Generation for Financial Data
The main purpose of the research is to understand and replicate how analysts generating a financial report by describing the trends and patterns of market indicators. While a human created report contains extensive temporal comparisons against past data, most of the current data-to-text generation models focus on describing individual tables. This work aims to enable Natural Language Generation models with temporal reasoning capability.
Data-to-Text Generation for Financial Data

Publications

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Rio Tinto
Data Science - Specialist
Rio Tinto
Jun 2020 – Present Singapore
Lead client-facing data science projects for different Rio Tinto entity. Provide mentorship and coaching to the intern data scientists on technical skillset and innovative data science critical thinking.
 
 
 
 
 
Rio Tinto
Data Scientist
Rio Tinto
Aug 2018 – May 2020 Singapore
Design and continually improve services that solve business problems and provide insight to making improved decisions for varies business functions.
 
 
 
 
 
Teralytics
Data Scientist Intern
Teralytics
Jan 2018 – Apr 2018 Singapore
Provide support for big data projects development. Design and develop model evaluation scripts, analyze and present evaluation results.
 
 
 
 
 
Micron
Test Engineer
Micron
Aug 2015 – Dec 2017 Singapore
Develop and maintain testing program for hardware manufacturing.

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