Chen Cecilia Liu

I am a third year ELLIS Ph.D. at TU Darmstadt (UKP Lab), Germany and the University of Cambridge, UK. I am supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Anna Korhonen. My research interests lie at the intersection of NLP and ML. Specifically, I am interested in:
– Cross-lingual generalization (e.g., plasticity, early period of training, memorization vs generalization, spurious correlations etc.)
– Culturally aware and adapted NLP
– Multimodality
Previously, I studied at the University of Toronto, where I obtained both of my undergraduate and master’s degrees. My master’s research was under the supervision of Prof. Brendan Frey (PSI Lab, Toronto ML Group). I have been working in the industry for nearly a decade in the domain of NLP before I went back to school. I worked at Canadian start-ups like Meta (acquired by CZI), Wattpad (acquired by NAVER WEBTOON), and ElementAI.