Minglai Yang
Scholar

Minglai Yang

Google Scholar ID: YsyVwcgAAAAJ
CS Undergraduate student, University of Arizona
Natural Language ProcessingLarge Language ModelsMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
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H-index
1
 
i10-index
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Publications
3
 
Co-authors
7
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main Conference (both Oral), acceptance rate 22.16%
  • Recipient of UA’s Top 10 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant to present at EMNLP in Suzhou
  • Galileo Circle Scholar at University of Arizona (Top 0.8% academic award)
  • 2nd place at Reddit Wildcat Hackathon 2025
  • First-author paper: 'How Is LLM Reasoning Distracted by Irrelevant Context? An Analysis Using a Controlled Benchmark'
Research Experience
  • Research Assistant at CLULAB, IVILAB, and ML4AI LAB at the University of Arizona
  • Research Intern at Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG), Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Juanzi Li, working on LLM reasoning mechanisms
  • Former Machine Learning Engineer Intern at CoreTechs
  • AI Engineer at AI Core, University of Arizona
  • Advised by Prof. Liangming Pan, Prof. Mihai Surdeanu, and Prof. Kobus Barnard; collaborates with Prof. William Wang, Prof. Adarsh Pyarelal, and Prof. Chicheng Zhang