I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I'm fortunate to be a member of Data Mining towards Decision Making (DM2 Lab), advised by Prof. Meng Jiang. My research interests are in NLP and LLM. Specifically, I focus on augmenting large language models with domain and task-specific knowledge for downstream scenarios, such as educational and scientific applications.
Prior to my PhD, I received my Bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University.
Email: myu2 [at] nd.edu
Office: 355 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering
Location: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
A new framework and dataset were created to improve the generation of educational questions from real-world lecture videos. The method combines context selection and rewriting strategies to generate more accurate and contextually relevant questions.
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We find that an extremely small subset of parameters in LLMs (in some cases, a single parameter) can exert a disproportionate influence on an LLM’s overall functionality. We try to uncover the mechanism behind this phenomenon.
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This work introduces a new framework and data collection method for continual pre-training of LMs for comparative reasoning.
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We created a new NLP task: generating comparative arguments that aim to present a scientific invention’s technical novelty by comparing it to one or multiple prior works.
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My name is 虞梦夏, which means "dream of summer" in Chinese. I was born in the northwestern corner of Guangdong, China, as a proud member of the Zhuang people. I grew up in and consider myself a native of Foshan—a city you might know as the hometown of martial arts legends like Ip Man and Bruce Lee. While I'd love to say their epic skills rubbed off on me, my own kung fu abilities are, tragically, non-existent.
September 15, 2025
University of Notre Dame is a private research university in South Bend, Indiana, United States. We are in the Midwest, yet we use Eastern Time.