I am a fourth-year CS PhD candidate at Yale University supervised by Arman Cohan. I am also a part-time Student Researcher at Google Deepmind. My research interests are in complex reasoning with Large Language Models, neuro-symbolic reasoning, reasoning evaluation and legal reasoning. I was a PhD student of the late Dragomir Radev.

Thesis committee:

  • Denny Zhou, founder and lead of the Reasoning Team in Google DeepMind
  • R. Thomas McCoy, from the Department of Linguistics at Yale University.

I completed my B.Eng Computer Science degree in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where I worked with Shafiq Rayhan Joty on text generation and summarization.
At NTU, I was awarded the Best Final Year Thesis Gold Medal.

Experiences

  • 5/2024 - Now: Student Researcher, Google DeepMind (Legacy Google Research).
  • 5/2023 - 8/2023: Student Researcher, Google DeepMind (Legacy Google Brain).
  • 5/2022 - 8/2022: Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Web Services.
  • 3/2019 - 7/2021: Research Assistant, Nanyang Technological University.
  • 1/2020 - 6/2020: Scientist II, A*Star.
  • 5/2020 - 11/2020: Research Intern, Yale University.

Publications

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2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

Awards

  • Meta Research Grant 2024 on Complex Reasoning.
  • SM2 Scholarship, a full scholarship issued by Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • National Physics Olympiad Second Prize, China.
  • Terrainier NUS Hackathon Top-8
  • Climate Oracle Yale-NUS hack4climate Datathon 2nd Place in the Data Science Category
  • Blinkception NTU Hackathon 2nd Prize

Services and Organization

Mentorship

If you are interested in collaborating with me, please complete the Recuriting Task and drop me an email!

  • Current: Frank Li (Yale CS & Math), Xuyuan Xiong (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
  • Past: Yilun Zhao (now at Yale CS), Zhenting Qi (now at Harvard Data Science), Hailey Schoelkopf (now at Anthropic), Wenfei Zhou (now at Nvidia)

Miscellaneous

  • I have lived in Luoyang, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Los Angeles, Singapore, New Haven, New York, Mountain View, San Diego and Palo Alto.
  • I am a portrait photographer.
  • I am a multi-instrumentalist (Piano/Guzheng). My recent Guzheng performance.
  • Open Source Society Technical Director, Hackers for Charity Subcommittee