CV

Education

  • Present
    Ph.D. in CS
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • Advisor Prof. Heng Ji
  • 2021
    B.E. in CS
    Tsinghua University
    • Advisor Prof. Zhiyuan Liu
    • Advisor Prof. Xiaolin Hu

Experience

  • 2021-Present
    Research assistant
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • Working on language models and information extraction. Advisor Prof. Heng Ji.
  • 2022.5 - 2022.12
    Internship (Software engineering and student researcher)
    Google
    • Working on large language model distillation. Host Dr. Yuexin Wu and Dr. Le Hou
  • 2018.12-2021.5
    Research Assistant
    Tsinghua University
    • Working on language models, event extraction. Advisor Prof. Zhiyuan Liu.
    • Working on adversarial attacks. Advisor Prof. Xiaolin Hu.
  • 2020
    Remote research assistant
    MIT
    • Working on neuro-symbolic learning. Advisor Dr. Chuang Gan and Dr. Jiayuan Mao.
  • 2019.7-2019.9
    Research assistant
    University of Southern California
    • Working on learning from human explanations. Advisor Prof. Xiang Ren.

Honors and Awards

  • 2021
    • Magna Cum Laude, Tsinghua University
  • 2020
    • Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tsinghua University
    • Scholarship for Outstanding Research Performance, Tsinghua University
  • 2019
    • Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tsinghua University
  • 2018
    • Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tsinghua University
  • 2017
    • Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tsinghua University
    • Scholarship for Outstanding Social Work Performance, Tsinghua University
    • Scholarship for Comprehensive excellence, Tsinghua University

Academic Interests

  • Natural language processing, large language models