Sean(HaoJin) Wang

Hi! I am a senior undergraduate at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. I major in computer science and technology at School of Electronic and Information Engineering and will be graduating in July, 2025. I am now working as a Visiting Undergraduate Student at the University of Waterloo in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics.

I am actively searching for internships, master programs and PhD opportunities which can allow me to take my research into next level.

Links: CV

Research Overview

My research interests lie in trustworthy and unbiased Natural Language Processing, with a focus on Language Modeling and universal attacks in NLP. I am particularly fascinated by the role of embeddings in language models. I seek to understand the inner connections between output distributions and input embeddings, exploring questions such as why certain input embeddings produce specific distributions and whether it is possible to build a sufficiently successful inverse language modeling approach. These are all questions I am trying to answer these days.

Updates

September 2024: I am working as a research assistant at Compling Lab with Prof Freda Shi at University of Waterloo! My first research project here focuses on exploring potential limitations in language modeling by analyzing output logits and input embeddings. It’s an incredibly exciting and enjoyable project!

Jan 2024: I am studying as an exchange student at National University of Singapore, and I will be taking 3 courses here including CS2108: Introduction to Media Computing, CS3245: Information Retrieval and IS3107: Data Engineering.

Publications

Expecting to come in 2025.