๐Hello, Iโm Jo-Ku Cheng!
๐งโ๐ I am a first-year PhD student in Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at the University of Sheffield, under the supervision of Dr. Marco Valentino and Prof. Nikolaos Aletras.
I obtained my masterโs degree in Applied Mathematics from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, where I was supervised by Prof. Jinwen Ma.
๐ง My research interests include integrating neural and symbolic approaches within language models to enhance their reasoning capabilities, controllability, and interpretability.
๐ I am from Taichung, Taiwan and grew up in Beijing.
News
- ๐ August 2026 โ Our paper โLogic Before Languageโ has been out on arXiv! See here for the preprint.
- ๐ฉ๐ช June 2026 โ Attended the Neuro+Symbolic AI Summer School in Leipzig, Germany.
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ February 2026 โ Started my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.
- ๐จ๐ณ November 2025 โ Attended EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China.
- ๐ฎ๐ช October 2025 โ Attended ACM Multimedia 2025 in Dublin, Ireland.
- ๐ August 2025 โ Our paper Beyond Binary Preferences: Semi-Online Label-Free GRACE-KTO with Group-Wise Adaptive Calibration for High-Quality Long-Text Generation was accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2025.
- ๐ July 2025 โ Our paper GeoUni was accepted to ACM Multimedia 2025.
- ๐จ๐ณ May 2025 โ Attended the ICASSP 2025 Satellite Event in Suzhou, China.
- ๐ December 2024 โ Three papers were accepted to ICASSP 2025: Diagram Formalization Enhanced Multi-Modal Geometry Problem Solver, SwapTalk: Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation with One-Shot Customization in Latent Space, and Enhancing Large Language Models on Domain-Specific Tasks.
