๐Ÿ‘‹ Hey there!

My name is Yingfa Chen (Chinese: ้™ˆ่‹ฑๅ‘).

I’m a PhD student at the Natural Language Processing lab at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Zhiyuan Liu. My research interests are about long-context modeling, RNN-based language models, continual learning.

๐Ÿ“ƒ My resume (last updated: Aug, 2024)

Portrait of Chen Yingfa having lunch in Beijing, taken by Luo Yining.

Email: (either is ok)

Personal Background

I was born in March 13, 1999 in Arendal Norway. I grew up in Lillesand, a small coastal town in Aust-Agder, Norway. My parents are ethnically Chinese but born respectively in Vietnam and Cambodia, and they moved to Norway as refugees. My mother tongue is Cantonese Chinese.

When I was 19, I went to Beijing for a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Tsinghua University.

Since March of 2022, I am happily in a relationship with Luo Yining1

Interests

๐Ÿค” Philosophy, History, Linguistics, Calligraphy

๐Ÿธ Sports: Badminton, running, soccer.

๐ŸŽฎ Entertainment: Video games, C-pop, anime, manga, Jackie Cheung, etc.

  1. The tag #00 refers to my girlfriend. ↩︎