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Yiyun Zhou, PhD

NLP Scientist

Yiyun Zhou serves as a natural language processing (NLP) data scientist at NBME. He is deeply intrigued by the intersections of advanced large language models and educational measurement. A significant focus of his work revolves around automatic scoring and enhancing the resilience of models against adversarial attacks. Furthermore, Yiyun emphasizes the use of generative AI to assist Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in item creation and in generating clinical reasoning for these items.

Yiyun earned his doctorate in analytics and data science from Kennesaw State University. With a rich background in the tech industry, Yiyun boasts extensive experience in deep learning R&D and seamlessly transitions research into business production.

Yiyun Zhou