Hi! I am Pingjun, a first-year PhD student (starting September 2025) at the Research Group Data Mining and Machine Learning, University of Vienna, where I will work under the supervision of Prof. Benjamin Roth. My research interests lie in explainable natural language processing, human-centered NLP, and cross-lingual information retrieval.
Before that, I completed two Master’s degrees at LMU Munich: an M.A. in Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics (2020–2022) and an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics (2022–2025). From 2024 to 2025, I worked as a research assistant (HiWi) at the MaiNLP lab with Prof. Barbara Plank, focusing on projects in human label variation and information retrieval.
🔥 News
Sep 01, 2025: 🎷 I’ve just started my PhD at the University of Vienna! Excited to dive deeper into Explainable AI (XAI) and see where this journey takes me.
Aug 25, 2025: 🎉 2 paper accepted to EMNLP 2025 (1 main, 1 findings). Looking forward to presenting our work and seeing you all in Suzhou!
Aug 12, 2025: 🎓 I successfully defended my Master’s thesis at LMU.
📖 Educations
- 2022.10 - 2025.08, Master of Science - Computational Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
- 2020.10 - 2022.08, Master of Art - Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
- 2016.09 - 2020.08, Bachelor of Art - German Language and Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
- 2010.09 - 2016.06, Beijing National Day School, Beijing, China.
💻 Internships
- 2024.09 - 2025.03, IT Enterprise Architecture Working Student, Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany.
- 2023.09 - 2024.08, Data Strategy & Operations Working Student, Allianz Commercial, Munich, Germany.
- 2022.11 - 2023.08, Talent Acquisition Working Student, FERNRIDE, Munich Germany.
- 2020.07 - 2020.09, Teaching Assistant, Teaching Assistant, New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Beijing, China.
- 2019.07 - 2019.09, Assistant Editor, Foreign Language and Research Press, Beijing, China.