Herbert Zhou
Zhenghao (“Herbert”) is a first-year PhD student in Linguistics. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022 with a B.S. in computer science & mathematics and PNP (philosophy-neuroscience-psychology program with personal focus on linguistics). He is broadly interested in the intersection of computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, with the long-term question of formally characterizing human cognition and language capability: what can we learn from the bidirectional interaction between neural language models and human sentence processing mechanisms? He is recently exploring how to model comprehension and production based on tensor product representation, a formalism that captures both symbolic level computation and neural level continuous representation.