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Hi, I am Xueyue Liu 刘雪悦 — I also go by Emily. If you are curious about how to pronounce my Chinese name: 🎙︎

I am currently a master's student in computer science, passionate about applying computational methods to long-standing challenges in the humanities that traditional approaches have struggled to address, such as predicting anonymous authorship and reconstructing artifacts. I am also exploring how machine learning, LLMs, and NLP can bring new insights into literary history. Recently, I have been experimenting with generative AI to test its ability to create poetry across cultures, comparing outputs in English and Chinese to assess its cross-cultural effectiveness and biases. My interests also extend to museum studies, art history, and AI ethics.

Before all this, I was academically trained in Chinese literature, earning degrees from Fudan University and CU Boulder's East Asian department, with a focus on medieval Chinese poetry. Switching to computer science has been quite an adventure—life truly has its surprises! And with this new perspective, I sometimes feel that close reading is like walking along a trail, carefully observing each leaf; now, with computer science, I seem to be at an overlook point, seeing the entire forest.

I am committed to supporting underrepresented communities, as I believe that inclusive practices are essential to reducing systemic biases and power imbalances. I help high school girls explore STEM fields through Women in Computing programs, and I also spend two hours each week assisting low-income immigrant students with English and math.

In my free time, I love hiking, dancing, Texas Hold'em, and puzzles. I also enjoy tarot reading and am about to present my first stand-up comedy.

Fun facts:
❄️ I lived in Colorado for three years but only learned to ski after moving to upstate NY.
🌊 I can't swim at all, but I am very into snorkeling and kayaking.
💮 I once won $4800 in a Chinese poetry contest similar to Jeopardy.

News:

2024.12I will be giving a talk at Utah State University with Prof. Yang Shi, as a member of his ICE Lab and Computer Science Education Research Group, on students' perceptions of AI and NLP bias.
2024.05Served as a code reviewer and data analyst at RIT's University Advancement, implementing data validation protocols and optimizing code to ensure data integrity.
2023.12Completed my first independent study predicting the authors of Chinese anonymous Tang Dynasty (7th century) poetry using a neural network model and BERT, featuring three layers of ReLU activation. The model reached a 76% accuracy rate on a complex dataset of 57,000 classical Chinese poems.
2021.10Awarded the Texas State Museum summer research fellowship, where I analyzed East Asian artifacts' historical context, stylistic features, and cultural significance, identifying their origins .
2021.02Presented "The Image of Peach Blossom and its Secluded Meaning in Classical Chinese Poetry" at the CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association Conference.
2020.02Presented "A Case of Interfamily ci Poetry Writing in Wumengtang Ji" at the CUBASGA.
2019.11 Contributed to Digital El Diario, a digital humanities project on archival justice and the Chicanx student movement, by cleaning data and analyzing creative writing and artwork in El Diario de la Gente, supported by the CU Boulder Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship..
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