About Me
I am a final-year undergraduate majoring in Computer Science at Northwestern University, with broad interest in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
Starting from the past summer, I am fortunate to work as a research assistant at TTIC, supervised by Prof. Zhewei Sun. I also serve as a member of LingMechLab and MLL-Lab at Northwestern, mentored by the gorgeous Qingcheng Zeng and Zihan Wang, respectively.
Research Interest
I am interested in how we can evaluate, interpret, and (hopefully) improve current AI systems. Much of my work is driven by linguistics (especially pragmatics) and cognitive science perspectives. I am also interested in multilinguality and how models understand and handle low-resource languages.
This post has profoundly shaped my research perspective and current work.
Publications
Conference Papers
The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models
, , Weihao Xuan, Wanxin Li, Jingyi Wu, Rob Voigt
to appear in EACL, 2026. [Paper]
Also presented at COLM 2025 Workshop: PragLM
Preprints
RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
, , , , , Zhengyuan Yang, Xing Jin, Kefan Yu, Minh Nhat Nguyen, Licheng Liu, Eli Gottlieb, Yiping Lu, Kyunghyun Cho, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
arXiv preprint, 2025. [Paper]
Miscellanea
I do some workouts, watch some anime, and listen to some JPOP.
Would greatly appreciate if you check ずっと真夜中でいいのに。(ZUTOMAYO) out.