I am 朱虹翱 (pinyin: ZHŪ HÓNG ÁO), a first-year PhD student in computational linguistics at UCSD. Before that, I completed my undergraduate degree of Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China.

Research

I have been engaging with computational linguistics and computational psycholinguistics in general. My research centered on the interpretation to LLMs’ linguistic performance and its implication for language learnability.

My previous research experience spanned from cognitive modeling, multilingual syntactic and pragmatic benchmarking, as well as authorship attribution for AI detection. I am interested in how we can model language acquisition and processing using LLMs and what such evidence can inform us about language itself. I have been collaborating with Professor William Schuler at Ohio State University beginning the summer of 2024, investigating the psychometric predictive power of small LMs and their alignment with human cognitive behaviors. Meanwhile, I partake in the computational linguistics lab at SJTU as Professor Hai Hu’s research assistant, training Transformer LMs to the interpretation of child language acquisition.

In my own research, I manipulated the training data of LMs to capture the machine’s acquisition trajectory of syntactic and semantic constraints regarding the Chinese Ba construction (then tested it with metrics other than minimal pairs), and I also devised an interpretable AI detection system combining stylistics metrics and machine learning.

Here’s my CV. I am happy to meet new friends and dicuss collaboration or internship opportunities.

Topics

I am expanding my research (into Cognitive Science, Computer Science…) with the hope of being more scientific. Here are some topics that I will be interested in discussing:

  • How can we know when LMs learned/acquired certain linguistic phenomena?
  • What can LMs’ acquisition of a linguistic phenomena inform us about human language?
  • How to incorporate multimodel LMs in linguistics research?

Hobbies

Born and brought up in a mountainous cosmopolitan, 重庆 (CHÓNG QÌNG), I love hiking, camping, and hot-pot.