Siyuan Song

My name is Siyuan Song(宋思远). I am a 3rd-year Undergrad at UT Linguistics. I am a member of UT CompLing Group and part of UT NLP community. I’m fortunate to be advised by Dr. Kyle Mahowald and to work with a great team at UT. I had the honor of working as a Visiting Undergraduate Research Intern at CoCoDev@Harvard in the summer of 2024 mentored by Dr. Jennifer Hu.

Currently, I’m visiting MIT BCS and am working with Thomas Clark at TedLab and CPL.

Before transferring to UT at 2024 Fall, I was an undergrad at School of Foreign Languages@SJTU. There, I had the honor of develving into the field of Computational Linguistics under the guidance of Dr. Hai Hu. I am happy to work with SJTU CL Lab even after I left SJTU.

In general, my research aims to:

• use computational models to understand the underlying mechanism of language acquisition (first language, second language) and language processing.

• Study the role of context (visual hints, social context…) in language learning.

• Evaluate language models in a scientific and cognitive-inspired way.

• Build data efficient AI system that think and learn like human.

In my spare time, I make music, do/watch sports and cook.