Final-year Ph.D. Candidate @ University of Alberta
Computational Linguistics · Natural Language Processing · Reinforcement Learning
On the academic and industry job market for 2026–2027
I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, supervised by Prof. Grzegorz Kondrak and affiliated with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). Prior to my Ph.D., I worked as a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Group. I hold master’s degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and New York University.
I am currently on the academic and industry job market and am open to collaboration and career opportunities. Please feel free to get in touch!
🧠 SuperCtxAll the context, in one place. A developer tool for syncing project context across AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity. |
Lexical substitution as causal language modeling. A research project on predicting high-quality lexical substitutes using causal language models.
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🔍 PI2NLIParaphrase identification via textual inference. A project connecting paraphrase identification with natural language inference-style modeling.
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🧩 CON2LMWord surprisal and contradiction in LLMs. A research project studying how word surprisal correlates with sentential contradiction in large language models.
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