hey there! I'm york.welcome to my corner of the internet.
chilliwack, bc
about me
what I do:I'm a fourth-year computer science student (minoring in economics) at the University of Toronto, as well as an undergraduate researcher at the lee language lab (supervised by Prof. Annie Lee) and the social reading technology group (supervised by Prof. Gerald Penn). I'm also a teaching assistant for CSC111.
my research interests:multilinguality in natural language processing, LLM biases, human-AI interaction.
outside of school:I'm the vice president at uoft's astronomy club. I help out with the computer science student union & I mentor at its research mentorship program. I like cooking/baking, specialty coffee, board games and classical music.
- maybe some of my projects will interest you?
latest
- march 2026:I presented our latest paper on language distances, "Modality Matching Matters: Calibrating Language Distances for Cross-Lingual Transfer in URIEL+", at EACL SRW 2026 (oral & poster) and SIGTYP (oral)!
- feb 2026:our paper, "Simple Additions, Substantial Gains", has been accepted to LREC 2026!
- nov 2025:I presented my first paper, "Less is More: The Effectiveness of Compact Typological Language Representations", at the EMNLP 2025 Main Conference!