Career profile

Joyce (Yanru) Jiang

PhD candidate @UCLA | Human-Centered AI | LLM Post-training & VLMs & Multimodal AI | Cog Sci & Neuro Sci & Model Explainability

Los Angeles, California, United States

Career path.

Cohere
Open Science Community Contributor
Jan 2026 - Present
UCLA
Researcher at Computation and Language for Society (Coalas) Lab
Apr 2024 - Present
UCLA
Researcher at Communicative Mind (Co-Mind) Lab
Mar 2022 - Present
UCLA
Researcher at Computational Media Lab
Oct 2021 - Present
Apple
Machine Learning Engineer
Jun 2025 - Sep 2025
Columbia Pictures
Graduate Data Science - AI Initiative
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
Beyond Limits
Applied Scientist
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Testin
NLP Research Engineer
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Siegel+Gale
Research + Insights Freelancer
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Researcher at Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Media Lab
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Hong Kong Baptist University
Research Assistant
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Cybernaut Zfounder Ventures
Investment Analyst
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
IDG Capital Partners
Investment Analyst
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
USC Marshall School of Business
Research Analyst at USC Institute for Communication Technology Management
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Skybound Entertainment
Marketing And Public Relations
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
SoCal Elites Connect Cocktail Event
Networking Event Planner
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Testin
Market Research Intern
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016