I’m Yu YAN, a first-year MPhil student at the Language and Intelligence (LAI) Lab, Thrust of Artificial Intelligence in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where I am co-advised by Prof. Chengwei Qin and Prof. Renjing Xu. Before that, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Finance at IUEC and Statistics at WISE from Xiamen University.

I am actively seeking summer internship opportunities and 2027 Fall PhD positions.

     Research Interests
    AI Agents
LLM Security

  

News

2025.03: ✨ I completed my first paper for submission to the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).

Education

the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) 2025.09 - Present
Mphil in AI Thrust
Xiamen University (GPA: 3.70 / 4.00 Rank: 7/40) 2021.09 - 2025.06
Bachelor's degree in Finance at IUEC and Statistics at WISE

ACL Under Review

Hehai Lin, Yu Yan, Zixuan Wang, Bo Xu, Sudong Wang, Weiquan Huang, Ruochen Zhao, Minzhi Li, Chengwei Qin

The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

under review

Paper Code

Paradoox AI 2025.03 - Present
Research Assistant at LAI Lab
QuantEcon 2024.10 - 2025.08
Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Thomas J. Sargent (Nobel Laureate in Economics)
DeepWisdom 2025.03 - 2025.06
Research Intern at MetaGPT Team
GF Securities 2025.01 - 2025.02
Research Intern in Equity Capital Markets (ECM)

National First Prize, 18th "Challenge Cup" Competition 2024
Fujian, China
Provincial Award, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Training Program 2024
Fujian, China
Provincial Third Prize, 2023 National Collegiate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2023
Fujian, China

English Proficiency
CET-6: 601; IELTS: 6.5
Technical Skills
Python, R, MATLAB
Leadership
Peer tutor at SOE/WISE, teaching probability theory and statistics; host of college events; Outstanding Volunteer at the 11th ASEAN Leadership Conference.