About

I am 朱虹翱 (pinyin: ZHŪ HÓNG ÁO), a linguistics senior from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China.

Research

I have been engaging with computational linguistics, and will be a PhD in this field starting 2025 Fall. 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 more than happy to meet new friends and dicuss about research.

Hobbies

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