๐ Hey there!
My name is Yingfa Chen (Chinese: ้่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.
๐ My resume (last updated: Aug, 2024)
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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
๐ค Philosophy, History, Linguistics, Calligraphy
๐ธ Sports: Badminton, running, soccer.
๐ฎ Entertainment: Video games, C-pop, anime, manga, Jackie Cheung, etc.