I am a final year undergraduate student at the Computer Science, University of Arizona (GPA: 4.0/4.0) and am on track to complete my Bachelor’s degree just over 2 years (Fall 2025). As Founder & President of AI Club at UA, I run workshops, host invited speakers, and lead industry collaborations—raising $14K+ to support student AI research and education. In our CS department, I currently serve as both TA (Discrete Math I & II) and RA in CLULAB, IVILAB and ML4AI LAB.

My research focuses on NLP, mechanistic interpretability and reasoning. Specifically, I study how to build LMs reasoning robustly, improve reasoning speed through copying, analyze LLM planning in real-world tasks and uncover their reasoning mechanism with Sparse Autoencoders. I am fortunate to conduct research advised by Prof. Liangming Pan, Prof. Mihai Surdeanu and Prof. Kobus Barnard. In addition, I also collaborate with Prof. William Wang, Prof. Adarsh Pyarelal, and Prof. Chicheng Zhang.

I previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer intern at CoreTechs. This summer, I was a research intern at Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG), Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Juanzi Li, working on LLM reasoning mechanisms.

• 🌍  I'm based in United States.
• ✉️  You can contact me at mingly@arizona.edu
• 🤝  I'm open to collaborating on Projects. This is one project I'm contributing to: https://ml4ai.github.io/tomcat/
• 🤩 If you pay interest, please visit my website.

To everyone, if you would like to chat about life, career plan, or research ideas related to AI/ML, feel free to email me (mingly@arizona.edu) to schedule a meeting. I will dedicate 30 mins every week for such meetings.