Linlin Yu
Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
Administration
Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences
School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences
Education
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Ph.D., Computer and Information Scien
University of Texas at Dallas, 2025
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BE, Computer and Information Syste
Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2019
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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CSCI 8940
Dissertation Research
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CSCI 7150
Natural Language Processing
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CSCI 8720
Problems in Computer & Cyber
Teaching Interests
Dr. Yu’s teaching interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Trustworthy AI. She is passionate about guiding students to build practical and reliable intelligent systems through both theoretical foundations and hands-on projects.
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- Survey of uncertainty estimation in LLMs - Sources, methods, applications, and challenges, 2026
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Can We Trust the Performance Evaluation of Uncertainty Estimation Methods in Text Summarization?, 2024
Conference Proceeding
Research Interests
Dr. Yu’s research focuses on machine learning and data mining, with an emphasis on Uncertainty Estimation, Trustworthy Large Language Models, and Graph Neural Networks. Her work aims to enhance the reliability and interpretability of intelligent systems in complex real-world environments.