Ling Sun (short CV)
Ling Sun (short CV)
EDUCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington, US — Expected Jul 2025
Ph.D. in Linguistics
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science
Graduate Level Computer Science Coursework
University College London, London, UK — Nov 2018
M.A. in Linguistics
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China — Jun 2017
B.A. in Applied Linguistics
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Programming Language (Python, C, Javascript, Matlab)
Statistical analysis (R, SPSS)
Digital editor (Latex, MS office)
Experience with Algorithm Design, Knowledge-Based System Design & Implementation, Operating Systems, and Deep Learning
Familiarity with Computational linguistic theories (Dependency grammar, Categorical grammar), language models (LSTM, Transformer), logic models, and animal/human cognition models
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English: Professional proficiency
Mandarin: Native proficiency
Swahili: Intermediate high proficiency
German: Intermediate proficiency
French: Elementary
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Indiana University
Ph.D. researcher — 2020-present
• Developed Bayesian models for language production
• Excited large language (LSTM, GPT) models for syntactic adaptation
• Developed recurrent neural network models for minimal cognition
• Performed dynamical system analyses for RNN models
• Developed linguistic models for cross-linguistic data
• Conducted experiments to elicit human subject data
• Implemented computational models for human data
University College London
Graduate researcher — 2017-2018
• Collected and evaluated cross-linguistic data in German, Dutch, and Mandarin
• Performed linguistic analysis for rule-based frameworks
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Indiana University
Associate instructor — 2022-2024
• Plan and deliver lessons in linguistics (L103) and linguistic analysis (L203)
• Design and grade assignments and exams
Teaching assistant — 2021-2022
• Lead discussion sessions and deliver guest lectures in introductory linguistics (L103)
• Grade assignments and exams
New Oriental Co.
Language instructor — 2018-2019
• Plan and deliver lessons for teaching English
• Apply second language acquisition strategies to enhance language instruction
Badou Artificial Intelligence Tech Co.
Corpus building and Data annotation Intern — 2016-2017
• Provide data for language corpus
• Annotate data for building knowledge graph