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NLP Research Intern
Tencent Lightspeed Studio
November 2025 – Present
Responsibilities include:
Research on Agent-based LLM applications.
RAG Intern Strategic Researcher
Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd - 2012 Laboratories
June 2024 – October 2025
Responsibilities include:
Worked on the SEKA paper which has been accepted by ICLR 2026.
Developed RAG-based research assistant system to enhance research efficiency.
The developed system has been actively used by researchers in multiple Huawei labs, including those in the UK, Germany, and Italy.
Research Assistant
The Alan Turing Institute
July 2022 – January 2024
Responsibilities include:
Worked on the topic of ``Synthetic Data Generation for Finance and Economics’’ which has been accepted by Finance for Social Impact @ AAAI 2024.
Collaboration with University City College London (UCL) on time series financial data generation.
System Engineer
International Business Machine Corporation
July 2019 – September 2019
Responsibilities include:
GF Bank Z14 mainframe upgrade project: helped with wiring installation and switching the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
Chaozhou Sanhuan IT Consultation: attended the first meeting with Chaozhou Sanhuan as a member of the consultation team.
Canton Mobile Server Room Maintenance: helped maintain the server models including Power 780, S814 servers, DS 8870, 8880 storages.
Big Data Platform Engineer
China Unicom
May 2019 – July 2019
Responsibilities include:
Managed the daily maintenance of the big data platform and helped with the security upgrade project.
Participated in the internal Spark computing framework training.
Teaching
Lab Demonstrator for Foundation of Natural Language Processing
University of Edinburgh
January 2022 – May 2022
Teaching Assistant for Introductory Applied Machine Learning
University of Edinburgh
June 2020 – September 2025
Responsibilities include:
Deliver tutorials and labs sessions and exam marking.
Answer questions for all undergraduate and graduate students who choose this course.