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Yixuan “Tom” Wang

奕轩 [wɑŋ˧˥.ji˥˩.ɕyɛn˥]

Greetings! I am an incoming PhD student at UWaterloo CS, to be supervised by Prof. Freda Shi and Prof. Robin Cohen. My research interests are in NLP and Computational Linguistics. Previously, I received Bachelor's degree in computational and applied linguistics at Peking University, and Master's degree in computer science at the University of Chicago.

News

2025

Yixuan will begin his PhD program at UWaterloo for the Fall 2025 term! Thanks to everyone who has supported me during the 6mo visa wait.

Yixuan joins the General Alignment team at MiniMax for a student internship.

2024

Yixuan graduates from UChicago, thanks to support from the CHAI Lab, the C&I Group, and the NLP community at UChicago and TTIC.

Publication

Logical forms complement probability in understanding language model (and human) performance
Yixuan Wang , Freda Shi

Blog

For more writings, check out my blog, Pak. You may want to filter all academic posts, or selected topics such as computer science and linguistics.

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