Zhou, Ej
Spelt YijieAbout
I am doing my third year of a PhD at the Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge, advised by Prof. Anna Korhonen. I am working with the Qwen Pretrain/Multilingual team as a research intern at the moment.
I work on multilingual NLP: getting LLMs to work well, and fairly, across languages. My interests span interpretability, alignment, generalisation, tokenisation, bias and calibration.
Language et al.
Wu is and Mandarin are my muttersprache. Apart from that I speak some French, Japanese, Russian, German (B1, Aug 2026) to varying degrees. I am learning Polish and Portuguese this year. I am passionate about languages and it has always been a motivation for me to work on NLP. I have ~1000 days on Duolingo.
Research Interests
Language Modelling Across Languages
Representation
The Strong Platonic HypothesisUniversal Convergence of Representations Across Languages Without Joint Training(EMNLP ’26)
Multilinguality is MultimodalityLanguages are modalities on a spectrum.(on arXiv soon)
Behaviour
Beyond the Final LayerLanguage-agnostic representations with better calibration(EMNLP ’26)↖ builds on Cross-Lingual Alignment
Data