I am Yan Meng, a Ph.D. student at the Language Technology Lab, University of Amsterdam, supervised by Professor Christof Monz. Before that, I achieved my Master’s degree at the National University of Singapore, supervised by Professor Min-Yen Kan.
My broad research goal is to understand the behaviours and the boundaries of machine intelligence, and build reliable and faithful machines to benefit human work and life. This includes multilingual global AI for diverse language communities, efficient AI assistants that improve work productivity, etc.
My PhD research mainly investigates multilingual capability of intelligent machines, from language models, LLMs, and agent. In specific, I work on interpreting the phenomenon of cross-lingual knowledge transfer and reasoning for language models, including downstream tasks on machine translation, multi-step reasoning QA.
Email: y.meng@uva.nl
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Selected Publication
- Sergey Troshin*, Wafaa Mohammed*, Yan Meng*, Christof Monz, Antske Fokkens, Vlad Niculae. Control the Temperature: Selective Sampling for Diverse and High-Quality LLM Outputs (COLM 2025)
- Yan Meng, Di Wu, Christof Monz. How to Learn in a Noisy World? Self-Correcting the Real-World Data Noise on Machine Translation (NAACL 2025, Findings)
- Yan Meng, Christof Monz. Disentangling the Roles of Target-side Transfer and Regularization in Multilingual Machine Translation. (EACL 2024, Oral Presentation)
- Yan Meng*, Liangming Pan*, Yixin Cao, Min-Yen Kan. FollowupQG: Towards Information-Seeking Followup Question Generation. (IJCNLP-AACL 2023, Oral Presentation)
Blog
Education
- Ph.D in Natural Language Processing, University of Amsterdam, Oct 2022 – Present
- Master in Artificial Intelligence, National University of Singapore, Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
- Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Leeds, Sep 2019 – Jun 2021
- Bachelor in Computer Science, SouthWest JiaoTong University, Sep 2017 – Jun 2019
Teaching Assistant
- Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing in UvA, MSc in AI, 2023/24/25 Fall
Non-Academic
Tennis, Chess, Travel, Photography
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