人 · Record
Every award, with its year and its source
A short certificate of who I am, then the register: research, olympiads, debate and writing, ventures and hackathons, each with its year and where it came from.
Certified · who this is
Liqian (Eric) Yan
A student in Shanghai, co-first author of the language paper and first author of the economics paper, both published here in full.
- School
- Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School
- Class of
- 2028
- Languages
- Chinese and English
- Cities
- Shanghai and New York
Roles
The register
Research
Olympiads
Debate and writing
Ventures
Hackathons
Beyond the table
Both papers began outside school and stayed there: each is my own question, followed for as long as it took.
The treasury job is the one that changed how I work. Allocating a school budget means declining requests in writing, with a reason people can check, which turns out to be most of running a nonprofit's finances.
Toolbox
- Modelling
- Deep learning and statistical modelling, in Python
- Systems
- Full-stack development, retrieval-augmented generation and signal processing
- Economics
- Econometrics, causal inference and computational social science
Argument is a technical skill
Debate taught me to find the weakest joint in my own case before someone else does. It is why the research pages here state each result's limits next to the result. A reviewer finds the gaps anyway; better they come from me.
The reading habit is less disciplined and probably more useful: world literature, philosophy and theology, mostly outside anything I am formally studying. CNM-BERT exists because I found it strange that a model could read a million Chinese sentences and still be blind to how a character is put together. I got there from the reading side of the desk, which is probably why it looked strange to me rather than routine.
Away from the desk