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..
Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
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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