Yilei Tu
Nickname / English Name: TT
Chinese Name: 涂毅磊

At Piazzale Michelangelo, Folrence, Tuscany, Italy;
Welcome to TT’s personal website!
Starting September 2025, I will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the UBC NLP Group at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Profs. Hila Gonen(Department of Computer Science) and Jian Zhu(Department of Linguistics). I will also closely collaborate with Prof. Isabel Papadimitriou. My research will focus on multilingual language models and speech models.
Previously, I was a Visiting Scholar at the CompLING Lab at the University of Waterloo, where I worked with Prof. Freda Shi, focusing on multilingual LLMs.
In 2024, I earned my M.Sc. in Data Science from the from Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Ryan Cotterell and Prof. Mrinmaya Sachan. My research focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP), with an emphasis of reasoning capabilities of Vision LMs.
In 2020, I obtained my bachelor degree in Statistics (Stream: Data Science) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. I gratefully received advice from Prof. Jianfeng Mao with focus on AI/ML × Aviation.
Last Update: 2025-Aug-25