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Rong Ye

Research Engineer @ ByteDance Seed

Shanghai, China


Rong Ye (叶 蓉)

A passionate Research Engineer!🚀 I'm now doing research at ByteDance Seed. I work on speech translation, LLM agents (social reasoning), and automatic theorem proving, with a broader interest in language generation, multi-linguality and multi-modality.

Previously, I received my bachelor and master degree from Fudan University (FDU), advised by Prof. Zhongyu Wei at Data Intelligence and Social Computing Reseach Lab (Fudan DISC). Since I've been working and interning at ByteDance from 2019, I've been so fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Lei Li (now at CMU)!


⚡️ Download my resumé. (Last updated June 2026)

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What else do I do?

  • I have a passion for aesthetics, fashion, and design. I like to go to museums and galleries to see all kinds of interesting or absurd art exhibitions, and the Biennale is one of the exhibitions I must hit. I like to see various fancy architectures🏰⛪️🏟️, and some of my favorite designers are Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, Sozaki Arata, and Leoh Ming Pei. I enjoy exploring and buying clothing🛍️👗 from niche designers, and Y2K is one of my favorite styles.

  • I am passionate about traveling✈️, shopping🛒🛍️, making short videos on TikTok🤩. Guess where I am in the avatar?👈 This photo was taken at the top of Lotus Peak⛰️, the tallest peak in The Huangshan mountain range (1,864 meters). I combined the original photo with a space background so that it feels like landing on an alien planet👽!

  • I can't live without music 🎼🎵🎶. I can play the French horn📯, a classical instrument commonly found in symphonies, but my favorite music genres are pop music, R&B and Rap. I am a big fan of Jay Chou, JJ Lin, SIA, MC Hotdog, Jackson Wang, G-Dragon...


  • Education

    Fudan University, School of Data Science

    Master of Science in Applied Statistics
    Sep. 2018 — Jun. 2020
    • Started to join FudanNLP group for NLP research, supervised by Prof. Zhongyu Wei.

    Fudan University, School of Management

    Bachelor of Science in Statistics
    Sep. 2014 — Jun. 2018
    • Outstanding Student Scholarship for four consecutive years.
    • Exchange program to National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2016.

    High School Affliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University

    Sep. 2011 — Jun. 2014
    • First prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIp), Shanghai.


    Academic Service

    • Area Chair: IJCNLP-AACL (2023).
    • Program Committee / Reviewer: ARR (2023–), ACL (2023–), EMNLP (2023–), NAACL (2023–), CCL (2022–), NLPCC (2022–), IJCAI (2024), and the ACL industry track.
    • Journal Reviewer: IEEE/ACM TASLP (2025).
    • Conference Speaker: NVIDIA GTC (March 2022) — Speech Translation Systems: From Industrial Applications to Advanced Research.