I am a PhD student at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Sinno Jialin Pan. During my PhD, I collaborated extensively with Dr. Wenxuan Zhang and Dr. Lidong Bing. I also hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from NTU.

My research interests include Sentiment Analysis, Multi-lingual and LLM Safety.

🎓 Educations

• 2020.08 - Present, PhD student, Nanyang Technological University
• 2015.08 - 2019.06, B.Eng. with Honours (Highest Distinction), Nanyang Technological University

📝 Preprints

• SeaLLMs 3: Open Foundation and Chat Multilingual Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages
  Wenxuan Zhang, Hou Pong Chan, Yiran Zhao, Mahani Aljunied, Jianyu Wang, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Zhiqiang Hu, Weiwen Xu, Yew Ken Chia, Xin Li, Lidong Bing
  Preprint [paper] [code]

• Backdoor Attacks on Dense Passage Retrievers for Disseminating Misinformation
  Quanyu Long*, Yue Deng*, LeiLei Gan, Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan
  Preprint [paper] [code]

📚 Publications

• SeaLLMs - Large Language Models for Southeast Asia
  Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Mahani Aljunied, Qingyu Tan, Liying Cheng, Guanzheng Chen, Yue Deng, Sen Yang, Chaoqun Liu, Hang Zhang, Lidong Bing
  ACL 2024 System Demostration Track [paper] [code]

• Sentiment Analysis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reality Check
  Wenxuan Zhang*, Yue Deng*, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  Findings of NAACL 2024 [paper] [code]

• Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models
  Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  ICLR 2024 [paper] [code]

• SOUL: Towards Sentiment and Opinion Understanding of Language
  Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  EMNLP 2023 [paper] [code]

• Bidirectional Generative Framework for Cross-domain Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
  Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  ACL 2023 [paper] [code]

🏅 Awards

• Alibaba Talent Programme Full Scholarship, 2020-2024
• Dean’s List Award, 2016
• Science and Engineering Undergraduate Full Scholarship, 2015-2019

🖊️ Services

• Reviewer: TAC’24, WWW’24, ARR’24 Feb, ARR’24 Apr, ARR’24 Jun
• Teaching Assistant: CZ1107 Data Structures & Algorithms, CZ3001 Advanced Computer Architecture

💼 Experience

• 2022.04 - 2024.08, DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group, advised by Dr. Wenxuan Zhang and Dr. Lidong Bing
• 2019.08 - 2020.06, HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab, advised by Prof. Sinno Jialin Pan
• 2018.12 - 2019.01, Baidu Inc., Shenzhen China
• 2017.12 - 2018.06, Shopee Pte. Ltd., Singapore