Biography

I was born and raised in the beautiful city of Nanjing, China. I was then fortunate to be able to study electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. There, in the second half of my bachelor's studies, I was introduced to the world of machine learning and became amazed by its potential in improving our society in a large variety of application areas. I worked on the computational modeling of driver visual attention which could help reduce car accidents caused by driver distraction. Afterward, I went on to pursue a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zürich, where my interest in natural language processing started to grow. I worked on several projects including one on protest event extraction from newspaper data. In my PhD, I plan to work on natural language processing and computational social science. I am interested in building and applying computational methods to text data to learn about society.

Previous Education

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Signal Processing and ML 2022
University of Texas Dallas Electrical Engineering 2020