I am an MPhil student in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford.
My research lies at the intersection of cognitive science of language, computational modelling, and artificial intelligence.
I study how linguistic knowledge is learned, represented, and processed in humans and artificial systems, and how it manifests in behaviour.
Do Large Language Models Adapt Politeness Like Humans?
Chen Tianfang, Yuyang Yao & Liping Tang
EMNLP 2026 (Main conference)
Before coming to Oxford, I studied German at Beijing Foreign Studies University. At the time, my interests were mainly in phonetics and phonology. In 2023, I had the opportunity to spend a year at the University of Göttingen as an exchange student. There, I took courses in phonology, syntax and Mediävistik. Towards the end of that academic year, I also attended the 9th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics.
You can explore some of my personal interests and hobbies here.