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).
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
- feb 2026:two more papers on language distances accepted to EACL SRW and LREC 2026!
- sept 2025:my first paper, "Less is More: The Effectiveness of Compact Typological Language Representations", has been accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main Conference!