I’m a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Yale advised by Arman Cohan. I am currently also a Research Scientist Intern at Meta FAIR, working on cognitively-inspired approaches for enhancing LLM reasoning with Richard Yuanzhe Pang. I’m passionate about building autonomous intelligent systems capable of reliable decision-making, and communicating their reasoning through natural or symbolic language. My research has been supported by Yale Graduate Fellowship, a Meta research grant and a Salesforce research grant.

I am seeking postdoctoral opportunities starting by December 2025!

Media Coverage from Yale Engineering. At Yale, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with inspiring researchers on projects like FOLIO, BRAINTEASERS, HYBRIDMIND, and Scheherazade which aim to push the limits of how AI understands logic and context. Our work has gained recognition in both academic and industry circles. Outside of research, I’ve deeply enjoyed mentoring students, organizing conferences and workshops, and contributing to a more inclusive computer science community.

I am fortunate to be supported by my wonderful thesis committee and informal mentors from diverse backgrounds and disciplines in my academic journey: R. Thomas McCoy, Denny Zhou, Kathy Mckeown, Yoshiki Takashima, Pan Lu, Jiayuan Mao, Ruzica Piskac, Scott Shapiro, Shafiq Rayhan Joty, Tu Vu.

Previously, I interned at Google DeepMind and AWS, where I worked with fantastic teams to advance reasoning capabilities in large language models. I believe that powerful AI should also be transparent, interpretable, and aligned with human values.

I completed my B.Eng Computer Science degree in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where I was awarded the Best Final Year Thesis Gold Medal.

In addition to my academic pursuits, I had the privilege of performing in an ensemble at Yale’s historic Woolsey Hall.

Recent talks

From First Principles to Real-World Impact: Advancing LLM Reasoning from Logic to Law. Invited talk at Google Deepmind, August 2025.

Advancing Reasoning in Large Language Models: from Fundamentals to Real-World Applications. Invited talk at CMU, April 2025.

Advancing Reasoning in Large Language Models: from Fundamentals to Real-World Applications. Invited talk at UCSD, Nov 2024.

Advancing Reasoning in Large Language Models: from Fundamentals to Real-World Applications. Thesis prospectus talk at Yale, May 2024.

Selected Publications

Awards

  • Meta Research Grant 2024 on Complex Reasoning.
  • SM2 Scholarship, a full scholarship issued by Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • National Physics Olympiad Second Prize, China.
  • Terrainier NUS Hackathon Top-8
  • Climate Oracle Yale-NUS hack4climate Datathon 2nd Place in the Data Science Category
  • Blinkception NTU Hackathon 2nd Prize

Services and Organization

Miscellaneous

  • I was a student of the wonderful Dragomir Radev.
  • Book list: Thinking Like a Lawyer by Frederick Schauer, Elements of Law, an Introduction to Metaphysics.
  • I have lived in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Los Angeles, Singapore, New Haven, New York, Mountain View, San Diego, Palo Alto and Redwood City.
  • Open Source Society Technical Director, Hackers for Charity Subcommittee