Yingjia Wan

Yingjia Wan

(I also go by ‘Alisa’ a lot.)

About

I am Yingjia Wan, a first year PhD student at UCLA, advised by Prof. Elisa Kreiss in the Computation and Language for Society (Coalas) Lab and the UCLA NLP group. My research interests include but are not limited to large language model reasoning, evaluation, AI4MATH, and post-training alignment.

- Education: I obtained my master’s degree at the Language Technology lab, University of Cambridge in 2023. I received my bachelor’s degree from University of Macau, where I graduated as the valedictorian of Class 2021.

- Collaboration: Working on AI/NLP since 2023, I feel incredibly grateful to have learned from some outstanding AI researchers and mentors such as: Prof. Elisa Kreiss, Prof. Zhijiang Guo, Dr. Ivan Vulić, Dr. Jianqiao Lu, Dr. Yinya Huang, and Dr. Zhengying Liu.

I am always open for a chat or collaboration. Feel free to drop me an email!

Interests
  • LLM Reasoning
  • Long-Form Generation Evaluation
  • Autoformalization for Theorem Proving
  • Post-Training RL
Education
  • University of California, Los Angeles (PhD), 2025-current

  • University of Cambridge (MPhill), 2022-2023

  • University of Macau (BA), 2017-2021

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Uniersity of Cambridge
Student Researcher
Uniersity of Cambridge
February 2024 – March 2025 Cambridge, UK
 
 
 
 
 
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou
Research Assistant
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Guangzhou
March 2024 – August 2024
 
 
 
 
 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Visiting Student
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
January 2020 – July 2021 Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Certs & Awards

Macau Foundation
Fundação Macau Academic Prize
University of Macau
Undergraduate Valedictorian
University of Macau
Full-Waiver Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates (4 Years)

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