Yingjia Wan

Yingjia Wan

(I also go by the name ‘Alisa’)

About

Hi! I am Yingjia (some call me Alisa), a student researcher in NLP. I obtained my master’s degree at the Language Technology lab, University of Cambridge. My research interests include reasoning, automated theorem proving, long-form generation evaluation, fact-checking, and model alignment. I received my bachelor’s degree from University of Macau where I graduated as the valedictorian of class 2021.

- Collaboration: I feel incredibly grateful to work with some outstanding LLM researchers and mentors such as: Dr. Zhijiang Guo, Dr. Ivan Vulić, Jianqiao Lu, Dr. Yinya Huang, and Dr. Zhengying Liu. I also conducted cognitive eye-tracking experiments as an undergrad, supervised by Prof. Matthew Wallace.

- Services: Reviewer for ACL 2024, EMNLP 2024, and ICLR 2025.

- Status: I am applying for PhD admission 2025 and always open for collaboration. Feel free to drop me an email if there is a good fit!

Interests
  • LLM Reasoning
  • Long-Form Generation
  • LLM-as-judge Evaluation
  • Formal Theorem Proving & Autoformalization
  • Fact-Checking
Education
  • University of Cambridge, 2022-2023

  • University of Michigan, 2019-2020

    Funded Exchange

  • University of Macau, 2017-2021

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Uniersity of Cambridge
Student Researcher
Uniersity of Cambridge
March 2024 – Present Cambridge, UK
Topic: LLM Reasoning / AI4Math; Generation Evaluation
 
 
 
 
 
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou
Research Assistant
March 2024 – August 2024
Topic: AI4Math / Automated Thoerem Proving
 
 
 
 
 
Depts of Linguistics & of Computer Science, University of Macau
Research Assistant
July 2019 – December 2020 Macao S.A.R, China
 
 
 
 
 
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Visiting Student
April 2020 – July 2021 Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Certs & Awards

Finished the tech-track course on AI safety and alignment with a final project in scalable oversight. Shoutout to the org team, my facilitators and the June 2024 cohort!
Macau Foundation
Fundação Macau Academic Prize
Fee waiver covering tuition, college accommodation, and semester exchange.

All Publications

(2024). FormalAlign: Automated Alignment Evaluation for Autoformalization. Preprint available.

arXiv

(2024). MR-Ben: A Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating System-2 Thinking in LLMs. The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).

Code Dataset Blog arXiv

(2024). Process-Driven Autoformalization in Lean 4. Preprint available.

Code Dataset arxiv

(2024). AutoPSV: Automated Process-Supervised Verifier. The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).

Code arxiv

(2023). Multimodal Prompt Tuning for Cognition-Enhanced NLP. [MPhil Thesis].

PDF

Contact