Resume

University of Texas at Dallas

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Rutgers University

M.S. in Computer Science

South China Agricultural University

B.Eng. in Software Engineering

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon

• Researched and developed an LLM-based workflow to auto-extract customer-centric product metadata for 5 types of products on amazon.com, poised to significantly automate labor-intensive tasks.
• Augmented LLMs with external knowledge sources, ensuring evidence-grounded results and reducing the risk of inaccurate model outputs (hallucinations).

Research Assistant

Human Language Technology Research Institute at UT Dallas

• Designed a model that automatically extracts and filters syntactic and semantic features from student essays, achieving a 1.6% improvement in cross-prompt essay scoring over previous state-of-the-art models.
• Built a pipelined model for entity coreference resolution, achieving the best performance in the CODI-CRAC 2022 shared task which is 1.6x as good as the baseline and 1.2x as good as the second-ranked team.
• Developed a top-performing end-to-end model for the discourse deixis track in the CODI-CRAC 2021 shared task, utilizing resolution constraints to achieve a performance of 1.8x as good as the second-ranked team.
• Developed an end-to-end model for discourse deixis resolution that leveraged task-specific characteristics and outperformed previous state-of-the-art by 27%, resulting in a first-author publication in EMNLP 2022.
• Collected and analyzed data for identifying propaganda content in Spanish magazines during World War II. Identified key challenges for developing a deep learning model. Published findings in AAAI 2023.

Research Assistant

NLP Group at Rutgers University

• Developed a multimodal classification model to predict the coherence relation between an image and its caption, aiding the development of controllable caption generation and leading to an ACL 2020 publication.

Louis Beecherl, Jr. Graduate Fellowship at UT Dallas

Jonsson School at UT Dallas

Merit-based fellowship for graduate students with a competitive academic record.

Silver Medal in the 2015 ACM-ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Asia Shenyang Regional Contest

Northeastern University (China)