Fangru Lin

Hi! I am Fangru and welcome to my page!

I’m reading for a DPhil degree at University of Oxford with a research focus on NLP. I’m also affiliated with the Alan Turing Institute as an enrichment student. I’m working on linguistically informed LLMs, mainly on semantic/pragmatic implications on NLP technologies. I also want to know how human cognitive models can help us understand/develop LLMs.

I am supervised by Prof Janet Pierrehumbert and Prof Daniel Altshuler. My academic interests mainly lie in:

· Developing better models to understand complex linguistic meanings and reasoning paths for decision making and language understanding
· Very interested in neuro-symbolic methods and formal theories!

For most recent publications, please visit my Google scholar page.

I co-organize OxNLP, a hybrid weekly reading group sharing sota NLP works at University of Oxford. See more information and feel free to join our mailing list here.

My non-academic interests are in music and sports! I have level-10 (highest level) piano player certificate. I have also been in many sing comps including Voice of China, and Chinese sing comp (唱响津城) at University of Oxford (will be in more sing comps hopefully!) For sports, I often play golf and do Pilates. I sometimes ski.

See my other profile pages in Alan Turing Institute, Oxford e-Research Centre and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics.