I am a four-year PhD candidate majoring in Computer Science at the University of Arizona, advised by Dr. Eduardo Blanco. I am affliated with Computational Language Understanding (CLU) Lab, where most of the NLP researchers at UofA reside.
My research interests are broadly in the area of Natural Language Understanding, including Question Answering and LLM reasoning. Please refer to my publication list for my recent works.

• Question Answering: I am interested in all kinds of questions that are asked by real humans—realizing that real human questions are much more interesting (and more challenging)! As an example, I have been worked on understanding indirect answers to yes-no questions in dialogue—people do not like to say yes or no to those questions.
• LLMs: I am interested in exporing LLMs’ ability (as well as weakness) on question answering tasks, or reasoning tasks, since answering questions involves all sorts of reasoning process.

News

• May 2025: Moved to Atlanta, GA for my summer intern. Cannot wait to start working on some really cool research at Dolby.
• March 2025: Excited to share that I will join Dolby Advanced Technology Group (ATG) in this summer as a PhD Research Intern. I will work on some interesting projects related to multi-modal understanding and reasoning.
• Jan. 2025: I have passed my comprehensive exam and thesis proposal defense, now I am a Phd Candidate!
• March 2024: Our paper Interpreting Answers to Yes-No Questions in Dialogues from Multiple Domains has been accepted to NAACL 2024 findings. link
• October 2023: Our papaer Interpreting Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions in Multiple Languages has been accepted to EMNLP 2023 findings. link