Welcome!

I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at Yale University where I am fortunate to be advised by Robert Frank and Tom McCoy. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences (Linguistics concentration) from Wellesley College in 2023, where I was advised by Carolyn Anderson and Angela Carpenter. I am originally from Shanghai, China.

My research centers on the following two questions:
(i) How is meaning acquired and represented in large (multimodal) language models?
(ii) How can we develop and evaluate natural language processing systems using linguistic insights?

Aside from computational linguistics, I also work on dynamic models of articulation under the framework of Dynamic Field Theory.

News

• (April 2025) Our work Do LLMs Understand Anaphoric Accessibility? has been accepted as a poster to SCiL 2025! See you in Oregon!
• (Feb 2025) New preprint Meaning beyond truth conditions co-authored with Herbert Zhou that uses core ideas from dynamic semantics to evaluate LLMs!
• (Jan 2025) I presented in the Dynamic Field Theory for Unifying Discrete and Continuous Aspects of Linguistic Representations symposium at LSA 2025 Annual Meeting.
• (May 2024) I am excited to announce that my first paper LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition has been accepted to the main conference of ACL 2024! See you in Bangkok!

Last Updated: March 2025