hey there! I'm york.welcome to my corner of the internet.
chilliwack, bc
about me
what I do:I'm a first-year computer science masters' student at McGill University and a researcher at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, supervised by Prof. Jackie Cheung. I did my undergrad at the University of Toronto, where I'm working at the Lee Language Lab (supervised by Prof. Annie Lee) and the computational linguistics lab (supervised by Prof. Gerald Penn).
my research interests:
multilinguality in natural language processing, cross-lingual transfer, typology.→ see my publications
outside of school:I like cooking/baking, specialty coffee, board games, observational astronomy and classical music.
me at my barista job.
latest
- sep 2026:I'm starting my masters at McGill University!
- aug 2026:our paper, "Typological Feature Prediction with Large Language Models: An In-Context Learning Approach", has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference!
- mar 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!
get in touch
I'd love to hear from you! feel free to reach out to me through any of the following platforms:
LinkedInemail: york [dot] ng [at] mila [dot] quebec
quote of the month (nov'26)
"[you] musn't be accustomed. it's only because we all became accustomed to everything, that you all ended up like this."(orig. 千祈唔好慣。就係因為我哋乜嘢都慣晒，先搞到你哋咁。)- the late Kai-chi Liu in Ten Years (2015), on propaganda.