Scholar
Pinzhen Chen
Google Scholar ID: m_HgJe0AAAAJ
University of Edinburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
745
H-index
13
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
44
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Was a GAIL Fellow and a member of the machine translation group, EdinburghNLP, and Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. Delivered the UK's first LLM for financial services at Aveni.ai.
Research Experience
- 2025-now, Queen's University Belfast, Assistant Professor; 2024-now, University of Edinburgh, Research Associate; 2024-2025, Aveni.ai, Senior Research Engineer; 2023, Microsoft, Research Visit; 2022, Huawei, Research Intern; 2019, University of Edinburgh, Research Assistant; 2018, Goldman Sachs, Technology Analyst Intern.
Education
- 2020-2024, University of Edinburgh, PhD, advised by Kenneth Heafield and Barry Haddow; 2015-2019, University of Edinburgh, BEng, 1st class & class medal for highest marks.
Background
- Research Interests: machine translation, multilingual and multi-cultural NLP, question answering; Methods: long-context modelling, reward modelling, self-improving models, agentic systems; Evaluation/reporting: scalable and reliable benchmarks, robust metrics; Applications: AI/LLMs for finance and coding.
Miscellany
- Enjoys traveling, cooking, and photography. Sometimes plays badminton, basketball, as well as board and card games. Has a cat named Luckie.
