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. My research interests include (but are not limited to) LLM 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.

- Status: 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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