Welcome to my website! My name is Tatsuya Aoyama (青山達也), and I am a research scientist at Meta. I obtained a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Georgetown University, where I was a member of NERT, Corpling, PICoL, and the larger GUCL community. I was very fortunate to have worked with wonderful professors at Georgetown: Nathan, Amir, and Ethan. Broadly, my research interests are centered around language modeling. In particular, I am interested in language models' (1) pretraining dynamics, (2) (mechanistic) interpretability, and (3) application to cognitive science.
Previously, I obtained a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America, where my main focus was Psychology and Economics. I then received an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Michigan State University..
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2020) (October 2020): A Corpus-based Multifactorial Analysis of Japanese and Chinese Learners’ English Article Use : Quantifying theDeviation using MuPDAR
The Asian Conference on Language (ACL 2020) (March 2020): Japanese ESL Students’ Willingness to Communicate in English : The Effects of L2 Self-Confidence, Acculturation, and Motivational Types
MSU LLT 860 Guest Lecture (February 2020): Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
LING-4449 (Spring 2025): Analyzing Language Data with R
LING/COSC-572 (Spring 2023, Spring 2024): Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
LING-001 (Fall 2021, Spring 2022): Introduction to Language
JPN-102 (Spring 2019): Elementary Japanese II
JPN-101 ( Fall 2018, Fall 2019): Elementary Japanese I
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