🌟 Hiring 🌟 The THUNLP group at Tsinghua University has internship opportunities in legal AI. Master/PhD students in computer science or law are very welcome to reach out via email.
⚖️ [2026-04] Our paper LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases has been accepted to ACL 2026.
🤖 [2025-11] Our paper Large Language Models' Complicit Responses to Illicit Instructions across Socio-Legal Contexts is out!
🔗 [2025-09] Our paper LexChain: Modeling Legal Reasoning Chains for Chinese Tort Case Analysis has been accepted to AAAI 2026.
About Me
I am a Research Associate in the Tsinghua University NLP (THUNLP) Group. My current research interest lies at the intersection of AI and social sciences, focusing on AI safety, computational modelling of legal reasoning, interpreting and probing LLM behaviour, and model evaluation and benchmark development.
At Tsinghua, I work with Prof. Zhiyuan Liu and Dr. Yuxiao Ye on AI and Law. Before joining Tsinghua, I was a Research Associate at the Cambridge Faculty of Law, working with Prof. Felix Steffek on dispute resolution for the UK Employment Tribunal. I also worked at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, on Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence.
I completed my PhD in Computer Science in the NLIP group at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Ann Copestake. My PhD thesis studied robust evaluation for natural language generation, including grammaticality, faithfulness, and diversity.
I previously served as Chair and Treasurer of Women@CL at the University of Cambridge, and as Chief Operating Officer of Downing Enterprise at Downing College Cambridge. I also co-organised the NLIP Seminar Series at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory during the third year of my PhD and have helped organise the Cambridge PhD Multidisciplinary Seminar Series since 2019. Outside the lab, I enjoy playing squash, hiking, and musicals. I co-founded the Tsinghua Postdoctoral Squash Club and served as its inaugural president from 2024 to 2026.
Selected Publications
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LexRel: Benchmarking Legal Relation Extraction for Chinese Civil Cases
ACL 2026
LexChain: Modeling Legal Reasoning Chains for Chinese Tort Case Analysis
AAAI 2026
Large Language Models' Complicit Responses to Illicit Instructions across Socio-Legal Contexts
Technical Report, ArXiv 2025
Information Extraction from Employment Tribunal Judgments Using A Large Language Model
Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2025
The CLC-UKET Dataset: Benchmarking Case Outcome Prediction for the UK Employment Tribunal
NLLP Workshop at EMNLP 2024
The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Corpus for Legal AI Research
NeurIPS 2023
TIAGE: A Benchmark for Topic-Shift Aware Dialog Modeling
Findings of EMNLP 2021