Chen Cecilia Liu

I am a last year ELLIS Ph.D. at TU Darmstadt (UKP Lab), Germany and the University of Cambridge, UK. I am supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Anna Korhonen.

Currently, my research interests are:

Cultural adaptation and alignment (for example: CLCA), particularly leveraging ideas from social learning or in multi-agent setups. Additionally, I am interested in cultural evaluations in situated social contexts.
Efficient and low-resource methods for multilingual NLP (an example: FUN).
Methods and analyses of models inspired by developmental psychology, neuroscience, or social psychology.
Applications in education, healthcare, psychotherapy, and the creative industries, emphasizing multilinguality and cultural adaptation (an example: CultureCare).

I appreciate pure deep learning methods, but I’m equally drawn to ideas for NLP grounded in theories and insights from other disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology … maybe a bit too broad for my own good.

If you are interested in collaboration📜, feel free to contact me via email! Email: middlename firstname dot lastname at gmail.

Here are some of the works that I’ve done during my PhD, and I am still very interested in these ideas:

Cross-lingual generalization (e.g., plasticity, spurious correlations etc. P7, P9)
Culturally aware and adapted NLP (P8, P10)
Multimodality (P4, P6)

Previously, I studied at the University of Toronto, where I obtained both of my undergraduate and master’s degrees. My master’s research was under the supervision of Prof. Brendan Frey (PSI Lab, Toronto ML). I have been working in the industry for nearly a decade in the domain of NLP before I went back to school. I worked at Canadian start-ups like Meta (acquired by CZI), Wattpad (acquired by NAVER WEBTOON), and ElementAI (acquired by ServiceNow).

Chen Cecilia Liu

Chen Cecilia Liu

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