Eleanor is a second-year Ph.D. in the Institute of Machine Learning at ETH Zürich, where she is supervised by Ryan Cotterell and Mrinmaya Sachan. She also obtained her Master’s in Computer Science at ETH Zürich. Previously, she did her undergraduate studies at Zhejiang University and also spent some time at UCLA, supervised by Kai-Wei Chang. Her research is focused on generating and understanding long texts. To this end, she has recently been dabbling into document-level machine translation, coreference resolution, and coherence modeling. She also likes fun applications of natural language generation (news generation, lyrics generation, etc.). ​In her spare time, Eleanor enjoys learning languages, skiing and hiking. She also plays the piano. It is her greatest dream to travel to all 195 countries in the world.

Native Language: Mandarin

Animal Form: Penguin