Xiaoyu Lin

About Me

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin, starting in Fall 2026, advised by Prof. Chan Young Park. Now, I’m working with Prof. Chris Callison-Burch as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining the master’s program in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at Upenn, I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, where I was advised by Prof. Xuming He.

Outside of academia, I began my journey as a rower/coxswain in 2021 and went on to win several national awards on behalf of ShanghaiTech University. Now, I’m a member of Wharton Crew. In addition, I am a comedian specializing in crosstalk, a traditional language art in Chinese comedy, which is one of the reasons why I am interested in research about language.

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing: reasoning, dialogue systems, LLMs bias, LLMs evaluation
• Multimodal Learning: VLMs evaluation, 3D understanding
• Human-Centered AI: culture-aware AI, Human-Language Model collaboration and alignment
• AI for Science: scientific discovery, scientific question answering

Awards

• [Oct. 2024] 2024 DIANins Scholarship
• [Dec. 2022] Merit Student of ShanghaiTech University

Services

Reviewers

• GEM2 Workshop: Generation, Evaluation & Metrics - ACL 2025

Publications

Beyond Academia