CV

CV

(A rather simplified version, last updated in July 2025)

Education

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Aug. 2022 — Expected Jun. 2026

  • Current GPA: 3.951/4.000
  • B.S. in Cognitive Science (Spec. Machine Learning and Neural Computation)
  • B.A. in Linguistics (Spec. Speech and Language Sciences)
  • Minor in Music
  • Thesis: Choice of Referential Expressions in Autistic Adults
    • Advisor: Rachel Dudley

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UCSD (2025), $6,500 (Declined offer)
  • Warren Cowgill Fellowship, LSA Linguistics Institute (2025), $2,500
  • Bronze Award, International Linguistics Olympiad (2021)
  • National Team (Top 8), China Linguistics Olympiad (2021)
  • Silver Award, 18th in Asia, Asia-Pacific Linguistics Olympiad (2021)

Presentations

Xin, Y. G., Luo, D. (2025). An Experience-First Approach to Autism Pragmatics [Poster]. COGSCI 2025, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Xin, Y. G., Morton, T., Ferreira, V. (2024). Pragmatic Reasoning in Large Language Models [Poster]. CAMP 7, La Jolla, CA, United States.

Research Experiences

Bilingualism in Context Lab | UCSD Cognitive Science
Nov. 2024 — Present
Research Assistant

  • PI: Anne Beatty-Martinez
  • Code-switching and convention formation in bilingual communications
  • Annotate and analyze corpus data, build mathematical models

Language Production Lab | UCSD Psychology
Aug. 2023 — Present \ Research Assistant

  • PI: Victor Ferreira
  • Structural priming and planning in language production
  • Run participants, transcribe data

Phonetics Lab | UCSD Linguistics
Jan. 2023 — Jun. 2023
Research Assistant

  • PI: Marc Garellek
  • Speech and voice perception
  • Designed experiment stimuli, ran participants, annotated sound files with Praat and textgrid

Skills

Languages: English (Native), Mandarin Chinese (Native), Cantonese (Conversational)

Programming: R, Matlab, Python, PsychoPy, Java, Javascript

Tools: Praat, ELAN

Course Projects and Writings

  • Rotating the Rotated Text | Miniature Language Studies
  • Pragmatics in Verbal Theory of Mind Assessments | LIGN 279: Topics in Child Language Acquisition
  • Phonological Priming Effect in Chinese Homophones | LIGN 172: Psycholinguistics Lab Projects
  • Autism and Neurodiversity in China | ANSC 164: Medical Anthropology
  • Feeding and Bleeding in Optimality Theory | LIGN 115: Phonology II
  • Phonetics of Tamil | LIGN 110: Phonetics
  • Person and Locative Markings in Sign Languages | Analysing Sign Languages
  • “I Have Autism”: Uses and Misuses of Autism as Internet Slang in China | Pioneer Academics