News
- 05/2023: I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor (starting Summer 2024) in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute.
Prospective Graduate Students: The FAQ page and my advising statement may answer some of your questions, and I appreciate it if you read them before reaching out.
Prospective Undergrad RAs and Visiting Students: Please complete a practice task to demonstrate your interest and skills, and submit your application here.
Due to bandwidth limitation, I am sorry that I am not able to reply any email regarding internship application if you have not completed a practice task.
- 02/2024: Talk at the Vector NLP workshop. Check out the slides.
- 10/2023: Talk at the University of Michgan, Ann Arbor. Check out the slides.
- 09/2023: Talk at Peking University. Content covered in this talk largely overlaps with my academic job talk in spring 2023 and (forthcoming) thesis. Check out the slides.
Research Interests
My research interests are in computational linguistics and natural language processing, and I am particularly interested in learning language through grounding, computational multilingualism and related topics.
Representative work includes the grounded syntax and semantics learners, the contextualized bilingual lexicon inducer, and the substructure-based zero-shot cross-lingual dependency parser.
Recently, I have also worked on analyzing pre-trained large language models from the views of
cross-lingual performance,
distractability,
and semantic parsing (in a broad sense).
For more details, check out my research topics and academic c.v.
