About me

I am currently a master student in statistics at the University of Chicago. Previously I graduated from Tsinghua University where I majored in English and minored in Economics & Finance and Statistics.

I have broad interests in research within the purview of machine learning, particularly natural language processing. In my undergraduate thesis I investigated the differences between the strategies applied by pretrained language models and those suggested by traditional translation studies in terms of improving raw machine translations of English academic texts into Chinese. Currently I am working under the supervision of Prof. Yiqiao Zhong to explore the mechanistic interpretability of various emergent capabilities of large language models, for instance the ability of in-context learning, or, more generally, OOD generalization on-the-fly without (explicit) parameter updates. In my undergraduate days I also had extensive experience in tackling problems emerging in fields such as education science, environmental science, and economics using a wide range of statistical and machine learning techniques, including network analysis and graph neural networks.

You can contact me at: haolinyang2001@uchicago.edu.