I am a fully-funded PhD student in Computer Science (deferring to Spring 2025). During the 2024 PhD application season, I was awarded six scholarships (International student fee rate, with UKRI stipend, see Honors & awards column) from top UK universities, all ranked within the QS top 20-150 globally and members of the prestigious Russell Group. (After 20+ interviews, Many thanks:)
I received a Bachelor's degree in Finance & Economics from universities in mainland China & Taiwan Exchange. After working for three years at one of China's top-four banks and a top-ten securities firm, I changed to pursue a Master's degree in Data Science at Durham University (average 78%). I am a student member of IEEE. More details in https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/quinnelin.html
Potential Collaborations: If you are interested in these topics, feel free to reach out for more information!
Interests：
- Reducing hallucination and improving factual grounding in LLMs
- Building LLM agents that can reason, plan, and act in open-ended environments
- Prompting, fine-tuning, and evaluation of LLMs for real-world applications
- Integrating LLMs into interactive systems and tools (e.g., RAG, tool-use, multi-agent collaboration)
- Exploring responsible and explainable AI, especially in multilingual and cross-cultural settings
I consider myself an LLM engineer and applied researcher, with a keen interest in aligning generative AI systems with human needs and real-world challenges.
Durham University joint PhD Scholarship - China Scholarship Council*
Durham University Business School PhD Scholarship*
University of Edinburgh Business School PhD Scholarship*
Newcastle University 5-year PhD(in Computer Science) GTA Studentship （Staff contract & PhD student, Staff Contract is 5-year and co-terminous with the PhD; all staff leave, sick-pay and professional-development entitlements apply from day one, covering full international tuition fees and a tax-free living stipend; equivalent in scope to a U.S. Teaching Assistantship (TA))
Queen Mary University of London 5-year MRes+PhD Scholarship*
*The studentship was voluntarily declined in favour of another offer.
