I am a PhD candidate in Computational Linguistics at Stony Brook University, affiliated with Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Owen Rambow.
Prior to coming to Stony Brook, I completed a bachelor's degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Hunan University, and a master's degree in Applied linguistics from University of Saskatchewan.
My research spans large-scale studies of language use, data augmentation, text clustering, explainable AI, and foundation model evaluation. Currently, I focus on on evaluating Large (Vision/Audio) Language Models with a human-centric perspective. I aim to bridge technical performance with real-world impact. I am a longlife learner at heart, so my research topics keep evolving over time.
News
-
Aug, 2025: I started working for Amazon as an Applied Sciencist intern. I research in Large Audio Language Model for the Central Analytics and Research Science team under Alexa AI.
-
Aug, 2025: My first-authored paper LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication has been accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main).
-
Aug, 2025: My first-authored paper Catch Me If You Can? Not Yet: LLMs Still Struggle to Imitate the Implicit Writing Styles of Everyday Authors has been accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Findings).
-
May, 2025: I started working for Meta as a Software Engineer (Machine Learning) intern. Using Hack (PHP), I built LVLM-based agentic workflow for trend detection, validation, magnitude labeling, and post content quality rating.
-
May, 2025: My first-authored paper LLMs can Perform Multi-Dimensional Analytic Writing Assessments: A Case Study of L2 Graduate-Level Academic English Writing has been accepted to ACL 2025 (Main).
-
Feb, 2025: I advanced to PhD candidacy after passing my second qualifying paper.
-
Aug, 2024: I received the Junior Researcher Award from the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University.
-
May, 2024: I started working for the Home Depot as a Data Science intern where I developed various LLM-based systems for topic modeling, classification, and validation.
-
June, 2023: I became a trainee for the Bias-NRT (National Science Foundation Research Traineeship) program at Stony Brook University,
-
Aug, 2022: I started my PhD in Computational Linguistics at Stony Brook University.
