Education
- PhD candidate (12/2021-02/2025): Theoretical and Scientific Data Science (TSDS) group, Physics Area, International School for Advanced Studies (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, SISSA), Trieste (Italy).
- Master (09/2020-10/2021): Mathematics of Modeling (M2), Sorbonne Universitéex-Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC, Paris (France).
- Master (09/2017-10/2021): Applied Mathematics, Polytechnicien Engineer Program (Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program, X2017), École Polytechnique (X), Palaiseau (France).
- Bachelor (09/2013-06/2017): Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen (China).
Recent Service
- Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, TMLR, AAAI, COLING, AI and Ethics, etc.
- Evaluators: ELLIS PhD Program.
- SUSTech Alumni Association, European Chapter: President (06/2024-Now).
News
- 11/2025, Seminar talk, ENS-PSL (France).
- 11/2025, Seminar talk, CDSP Séminaire, Sciences Po (France).
- 10/2025, Preprint, On the Detectability of LLM-Generated Text: What Exactly Is LLM-Generated Text?, arXiv.
- 08/2025, Poster, 2nd WikiNLP: Advancing Natural Language Process for Wikipedia, Vienna (Austria).
- 07/2025, 3 papers, The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna (Austria).
- 07/2025, Contributed talk*1 and Poster*1, 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Norrköping (Sweden).
- 07/2025, Contributed talk, 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Utrecht (Netherlands).
- 07/2025, Poster, 6th Youth in High-Dimensions, Trieste (Italy).
- 06/2025, Poster, International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI), Copenhagen (Denmark).
- 06/2025, Preprint, code_transformed: The Influence of Large Language Models on Code, arXiv.
- 05/2025, Postdoc (officially) starts!
- 03/2025, Preprint, Wikipedia in the Era of LLMs: Evolution and Risks, arXiv.
- 02/2025, Preprint, LLM as a Broken Telephone: Iterative Generation Distorts Information, arXiv.
- 02/2025, Preprint, Human-LLM Coevolution: Evidence from Academic Writing, arXiv.
- 02/2025, PhDone!
- 12/2024, Poster, NeurIPS 2024 Workshop: Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) , Vancouver (Canada). (Collaborator presenting)
- 10/2024, Contributed talk, 1st SMASHing workshop, Vipava (Slovenia).
- 10/2024, Seminar talk, S2A Séminaire, Télécom Paris (France).
- 09/2024, Preprint, The Impact of Large Language Models in Academia: from Writing to Speaking, arXiv.
- 08/2024, Poster, ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2024, Paris (France).
- 08/2024, Poster, 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bochum (Germany).
- 07/2024, Poster, ICML 2024 Workshop: Large Language Models and Cognition, Vienna (Austria).
- 07/2024, Poster, ICML 2024 Workshop: Next Generation of AI Safety, Vienna (Austria).
- 05/2024, Preprint, Are Large Language Models Chameleons?, arXiv.
- 05/2024, Seminar talk, Network analysis and data science seminars, University of Trieste (Italy).
- 04/2024, Preprint, Is ChatGPT Transforming Academics' Writing Style?, arXiv.
- 09/2023, Contributed talk, 19th International Conference Applied Statistics (AS 2023), Koper (Slovenia).
- 09/2023, Outreach, 12th Trieste Next (Festival of Scientific Research), Trieste (Italy).
- 08/2023, Contributed talk, 6th Baltic-Nordic Conference on Survey Statistics (BaNoCoSS), Helsinki (Finland).
- 07/2023, Poster, 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Copenhagen (Denmark).
- 06/2023, Contributed talk, 8th Italian Conference on Survey Methodology (ITACOSM), Rende (Italy).
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
Internships
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ENS Ulm (IBENS, 04/2021-10/2021),
Collège de France (CIRB, 03/2020-08/2020),
TotalEnergies (CSTJF, 06/2019-08/2019),
Tsinghua University (Department of Automation, 07/2016-09/2016).
Once Upon a Time ...
- X-Systra Fencing Challenge (Organizer, 01/2019-02/2019), SUSTech Mathematical Modeling Association (President, 08/2015-07/2016), SUSTech Student Union (Vice President, 05/2015-05/2016), SUSTech Shuren College (Administrative Assistant, 09/2014-08/2015), SUSTech Students Conference (Commissioner and Secretary-general, 02/2014-09/2014).
- Summa Cum Laude Graduate award at SUSTech (06/2017, ten per year).
- "Shenzhen Cup" Mathematical Modeling Challenge (First prize, four teams, 07/2016), Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM, Meritorious winner, 04/2016), China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Second prize in China and First prize in Guangdong Province, 10/2015).
- Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (Prize of excellence, 03/2016), National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (Second prize, 08/2015).
- International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM, Gold Medal, 11/2014): Project description
Supplementary Information
- (Fan of many) sports: always looking for data analytics collaborators, especially for Wikipedia and Transfermarkt data
- Movies (watched 1500+): interested in the comparison of IMDB, Douban and AlloCiné rating results, any peers?
- Travel: 240+ European/African cities/towns since 2017, how about Tripadvisor data?
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Languages:
Python, MATLAB, JAVA, R, C/C++,Chinese (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (intermediate)
C'est pour parvenir au repos que chacun travaille
C'est encore la paresse qui rend laborieux
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau