Zhun Sun

Specially appointed associate professor (a.k.a. non-tenured casual laborer) at Language AI research center, Tohoku University. Funded by the Accelerating large-scale computational neuroscience by LLM project in the Brain/MINDS 2.0 program supported by Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). Currently interested in the following topics:

1. Philosophy of Large Language Models (Philosophy of Science, Epistemology);
2. Post-Training of Large Language Models (Reinforcement Learning, Chain-of-Thought Reasoning)
3. Multimodal Large Language Models (Modality Fusion, Visual Reasoning)
4. Non-Linguistic Large Language Models (Code & Symbolic Reasoning, Latent Space Reasoning)
5. Neuroscience and Large Language Models (Biomimetic Interpretability)

Received Ph.D from Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University. Worked as a senior reseacher at Tencent and Baidu in last 4 years before joining the Tohoku NLP Group, having great passion in ridiculing these two companies.

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