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Yixuan “Tom” Wang

奕轩 [wɑŋ˧˥.ji˥˩.ɕyɛn˥]

Greetings! I am a second year PhD student at UWaterloo CS CompLING Lab, supervised by Prof. Freda Shi and Prof. Robin Cohen. I am also affiliated with Vector Institute. 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

2026

Yixuan joins the Amazon Alexa team as an Applied Science Intern, working on visual-language model agents.

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.

Publication

Disentangling Statistical Preemption from Entrenchment in Language Models' Avoidance of Overgeneralization
Yixuan Wang , Freda Shi , Kanishka Misra
Logical forms complement probability in understanding language model (and human) performance
Yixuan Wang , Freda Shi

Blog

For more writings, check out my blog, Pak.

Social

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