About me

I’m currently a 5th-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, working with Prof. Mohit Bansal.

I received my bachelor’s degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2018, where I worked with Prof. Kai Yu. I was a member of the IEEE honored class. I also spent one summer visiting the University of Notre Dame, working with Prof. David Chiang.

Previously, I have interned at Google with Manaal Faruqui, Aditya Gupta and Shyam Upadhyay, at Facebook AI Research with Jean Maillard, and at Amazon with Heba Elfardy and Tom Butler.

My research interest lies in building NLP models that understands and analyzes language just like human. Besides leveraging the power of large language models, I believe we still need to figure out the correct inductive bias which may be missing in current models. I’m also interested in the connection between these topics and syntax.

• xzh at cs dot unc dot edu