人 · The record
Every award, with its year and its source
Where a year is genuinely unrecorded it is left blank rather than guessed. Two entries below are still waiting on details I do not have to hand.
The register
The two research programmes behind several of these are written up in full under CNM-BERT and the AIFE Engine.
The part that does not fit in a table
A high-school student in Shanghai. The research on this site is not coursework and was not assigned; both papers started outside school and stayed there.
The treasury job is the one that changed how I work. Allocating a school budget means telling people no, in writing, with a reason they can check, which turns out to be most of what running a nonprofit's finances involves.
- School
- Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, 2023 to expected 2028.
- Leadership
- Vice President of the Treasury Department: the bazaar, the lottery, and school-wide budget allocation. Captain of Team China-1 at the International Economics Olympiad. Associate Secretary at the Asian Community Center U30, supporting youth programming funded by the NYC Council and the U.S. Congress.
- Toolbox
- Python, deep learning, statistical modelling, full-stack development, retrieval-augmented generation, signal processing. Econometrics, causal inference, computational social science.
- Languages
- Chinese (native) and English.
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 know nothing about 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