Tianyi Niu

Hello! I am pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am currently a Research Assistant at MURGe-Lab, advised by Prof. Mohit Bansal.

I previously graduated from UNC Chapel Hill highest distinction, obtaining a BS in Computer Science with highest honors and a BA in Linguistics. My undergraduate thesis (advised by Prof. Shashank Srivastava) explored whether LLMs benefit from curriculum training on synthetic pre-training data.

Feel free to reach me at: tianyin4 [at] cs [dot] unc [dot] edu

📢 News

• August 21, 2025 - New preprint: RotBench: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Identifying Image Rotation.
• August 20, 2025 - 1 paper accepted into EMNLP 2025: Chameleon LLMs: User Personas Influence ChatBot Personality Shifts.