Hi! I’m Simon Yu, a MSc (By Research) student at the Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation at University of Edinburgh, supervised by Jeff Z. Pan. Prior to my graduate study, I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Edinburgh with First Class Honours and was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation, supervised by Jacques Fleuriot. My bachelor’s degree was fully funded by the Macao Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship, and I was among the top 1% of students in my A-level course.

My research interests primarily lie in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, with the goal of building robust systems that are invulnerable to attack. My research spans a focus on commonsense QA and contrastive learning on graph-structured data. I previously spent half a year working as a research intern at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, where I mainly focused on entity linking and disambiguation, as well as knowledge graph construction.

Note: I am actively looking for a PhD position starting in the fall of 2024, primarily in the area of Robustness and trustworthy in Large Language Model. Any opportunity would be greatly appreciated, and please feel free to contact me if possible!