Yingjia Wan

Yingjia Wan

(Other name: Alisa)

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.

- Research Interests: My research spans several interconnected themes, including reasoning and evaluation in large language models (LLMs), AI for mathematics (particularly autoformalization in Lean 4), multimodal reasoning (VLMs), factuality, and reliable AI systems more broadly.

- Collaboration: 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!

Education
  • University of California, Los Angeles (PhD), 2025-current

  • University of Cambridge (Master's), 2022-2023

  • University of Macau (Bachelor's), 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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