I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Cincinnati, where I established and direct the CincyNLP Lab. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah, advised by Prof. Ellen Riloff. Before that, I got my B.S. in Mathematics from Nanjing University. My main research interests are in the area of natural language processing, specifically in computational semantics, emotion understanding, multimodality, and LLM interpretability.
@misc{vennemeyer2026sycophanticpraise,
title={Sycophantic Praise: Evaluating Excessive Praise in Language Models},
author={Daniel Vennemeyer and Phan Anh Duong and Meryl Ye and Ruihong Huang and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2606.07441},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07441},
}
@misc{liu2026crosslingualsteeringfigurative,
title={Cross-Lingual Steering for Figurative Language Generation},
author={Linfeng Liu and Tiffany Zhan and Louie Hong Yao and Saptarshi Ghosh and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2605.30443},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30443},
}
@misc{vennemeyer2026sycophancythingcausalseparation,
title={Sycophancy Is Not One Thing: Causal Separation of Sycophantic Behaviors in {LLM}s},
author={Daniel Vennemeyer and Phan Anh Duong and Tiffany Zhan and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2509.21305},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21305},
}
@misc{yao2025jeirtgeometriclensllm,
title={{JE}-{IRT}: A Geometric Lens on {LLM} Abilities through Joint Embedding Item Response Theory},
author={Louie Hong Yao and Nicholas Jarvis and Tiffany Zhan and Saptarshi Ghosh and Linfeng Liu and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2025},
eprint={2509.22888},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.AI},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22888},
}
@misc{liu2026evaluatingimpactverbalmultiword,
title={Evaluating the Impact of Verbal Multiword Expressions on Machine Translation},
author={Linfeng Liu and Saptarshi Ghosh and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2508.17458},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17458},
}
@misc{ghosh2026exploringconcretenessfigurativelens,
title={Exploring Concreteness Through a Figurative Lens},
author={Saptarshi Ghosh and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2604.18296},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18296},
}
@misc{ghosh2026metfusefigurativefusionmetonymy,
title={{MetFuse}: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor},
author={Saptarshi Ghosh and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2604.12919},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12919},
}
@misc{yao2026rhetoricalquestionsllmrepresentations,
title={Rhetorical Questions in {LLM} Representations: A Linear Probing Study},
author={Louie Hong Yao and Vishesh Anand and Yuan Zhuang and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2604.14128},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14128},
}
@misc{saim2026emotionsinfluencemoraljudgment,
title={Do Emotions Influence Moral Judgment in Large Language Models?},
author={Mohammad Saim and Tianyu Jiang},
year={2026},
eprint={2604.19125},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19125},
}
@inproceedings{ghosh-etal-2026-computational,
title = "A Computational Approach to Visual Metonymy",
author = "Ghosh, Saptarshi and
Liu, Linfeng and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (EACL 2026)",
year = "2026",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.92/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.92",
}
@inproceedings{yao-etal-2026-towards,
title = "Towards Robust Evaluation of Visual Activity Recognition: Resolving Verb Ambiguity with Sense Clustering",
author = "Yao, Louie Hong and
Jarvis, Nicholas and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EACL} 2026",
year = "2026",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.32/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.32",
}
@inproceedings{hutson-etal-2025-guessinggame,
title = "{G}uessing{G}ame: Measuring the Informativeness of Open-Ended Questions in Large Language Models",
author = "Hutson, Dylan and
Vennemeyer, Daniel and
Deshmukh, Aneesh and
Zhan, Justin and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)",
year = "2025",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.876/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.876",
}
@inproceedings{chundru-etal-2025-llms,
title = "Do {LLM}s Encode Frame Semantics? Evidence from Frame Identification",
author = "Chundru, Jayanth Krishna and
Poddar, Rudrashis and
Cao, Jie and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)",
year = "2025",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1499/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1499",
}
@inproceedings{saim-etal-2025-anatomy,
title = "Anatomy of a Feeling: Narrating Embodied Emotions via Large Vision-Language Models",
author = "Saim, Mohammad and
Duong, Phan Anh and
Luong, Cat and
Bhanderi, Aniket and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025",
year = "2025",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1276/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.1276",
}
@inproceedings{duong-etal-2025-cheer,
title = "{CHEER}-{E}kman: Fine-grained Embodied Emotion Classification",
author = "Duong, Phan Anh and
Luong, Cat and
Bommana, Divyesh and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)",
year = "2025",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-short.88/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-short.88",
}
@inproceedings{ghosh-jiang-2025-conmec,
title = "{C}on{M}e{C}: A Dataset for Metonymy Resolution with Common Nouns",
author = "Ghosh, Saptarshi and
Jiang, Tianyu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2025)",
year = "2025",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.330/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.330",
}
@inproceedings{zhuang-etal-2024-heart,
title = "My Heart Skipped a Beat! Recognizing Expressions of Embodied Emotion in Natural Language",
author = "Zhuang, Yuan and
Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2024)",
year = "2024",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.193/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.193",
}
@phdthesis{jiang2023commonsense,
title={Commonsense Knowledge of Prototypical Functions for Natural Language Processing},
author={Jiang, Tianyu},
year={2023},
school={The University of Utah}
}
@inproceedings{jiang-riloff-2023-exploiting,
title = "Exploiting Commonsense Knowledge about Objects for Visual Activity Recognition",
author = "Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
year = "2023",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.457/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.457",
}
@inproceedings{jiang-riloff-2022-identifying,
title = "Identifying Physical Object Use in Sentences",
author = "Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022)",
year = "2022",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.781/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.781",
}
@inproceedings{jiang-riloff-2021-learning,
title = "Learning Prototypical Functions for Physical Artifacts",
author = "Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL 2021)",
year = "2021",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.540/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.540",
}
@inproceedings{jiang-riloff-2021-exploiting,
title = "Exploiting Definitions for Frame Identification",
author = "Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021)",
year = "2021",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.206/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.206",
}
@inproceedings{zhuang-etal-2020-affective,
title = "Affective Event Classification with Discourse-enhanced Self-training",
author = "Zhuang, Yuan and
Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)",
year = "2020",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.452/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.452",
}
@inproceedings{jiang-riloff-2018-learning,
title = "Learning Prototypical Goal Activities for Locations",
author = "Jiang, Tianyu and
Riloff, Ellen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018)",
year = "2018",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P18-1120/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P18-1120",
}
@inproceedings{ding2018event,
title={Why Is an Event Affective? Classifying Affective Events Based on Human Needs},
author={Ding, Haibo and Jiang, Tianyu and Riloff, Ellen},
booktitle={Proceedings of the {AAAI}-18 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis ({AFFCON} 2018)},
pages={8--15},
year={2018}
}