Liqian (Eric) Yan
 LANGUAGE  ECONOMY  BUILDING  WORDS  PERSON CONTACT
语言 × 经济 × 智能  ·  A WORKING THESIS

Language is infrastructure. I study how machines learn to read it — and how economies are rewritten by the ones that do.

Student researcher in NLP, computational economics & human-centered AI. Co-founder & CFO of LinkScape. Shanghai, China.
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THE STRUCTURE BEHIND CNMBERT
176.76
IEO Gold · Rank #9 globally
ACL '27
First-author submission
ISEF
Regeneron Finalist 2026
100M
Job postings · 72 countries
IEO GOLD — RANK #9 GLOBAL  ✦  ACL ARR '27 FIRST AUTHOR  ✦  REGENERON ISEF FINALIST  ✦  S.T. YAU GOLD AWARD  ✦  DIAMOND CHALLENGE GLOBAL FINALIST  ✦  BPhO TOP GOLD  ✦  3× SCHOLASTIC GOLD KEY  ✦  HARVARD WSDC QUARTERFINALIST  ✦  HACKHARVARD · HACKMIT  ✦  IEO GOLD — RANK #9 GLOBAL  ✦  ACL ARR '27 FIRST AUTHOR  ✦  REGENERON ISEF FINALIST  ✦  S.T. YAU GOLD AWARD  ✦  DIAMOND CHALLENGE GLOBAL FINALIST  ✦  BPhO TOP GOLD  ✦  3× SCHOLASTIC GOLD KEY  ✦  HARVARD WSDC QUARTERFINALIST  ✦  HACKHARVARD · HACKMIT  ✦  
§01
LANGUAGE
FIG. A
IDS TABLE
R-01 / R-02
LEDGER
§01 · 语 · NATURAL LANGUAGE

Teaching machines to read Chinese the way it is built.

Most language models treat Chinese characters as opaque IDs. But a character has anatomy — radicals, components, spatial structure. My work encodes that anatomy directly, so a model can reason about characters it has never seen.

CHARIDS DECOMPOSITIONMEANING
⿰ 讠 吾LANGUAGE
⿰ 氵 胡LAKE
⿱ 木 林FOREST
FIG. A — RARE FORMS BECOME COMPOSITIONS, NOT UNKNOWNS
R-01
CNMBERTFIRST AUTHOR · ACL ROLLING REVIEW 2027

A structure-aware language model representing Chinese characters through Ideographic Description Sequences to handle rare, out-of-vocabulary forms. Led design, experiments, evaluation, and the manuscript.

NLPLINGUISTIC MODELINGUNDER REVIEW
R-02
PoliScopeBUILDER · HACKHARVARD — FIRST-EVER HS TEAM

An AI platform tracing bill evolution, sponsorship, lobbying, and campaign finance — a LangChain / LangGraph RAG system over Congress.gov, GovInfo, and FEC data on Google Cloud Run.

RAGCIVIC DATALANGGRAPH
§02 · 济 · ECONOMICS

Measuring how AI rewrites the demand for work.

R-03
AIFE EngineREGENERON ISEF FINALIST · ONGOING

An NLP and econometric pipeline over 100M job postings across 72 countries — identifying firm-level AI adoption and shifts in labor demand through language models, causal inference, and forecasting. Qualified via the Shanghai Science Seed Olympiad.

ECONOMETRICSCAUSAL INFERENCEFORECASTING
H-01
International Economics OlympiadJUL 2026

Gold Medalist, ranked #9 globally with an individual score of 176.76. Captained Team China-1 — designing preparation, delegating analysis, directing strategy — to the Business Case silver and second place globally.

H-02
S.T. Yau Science Award — GoldTSINGHUA · NOV 2025

Gold Award for original research in economic and financial modeling.

ALSO — BRITISH PHYSICS OLYMPIAD, TOP GOLD (GRADE 9)
'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
FIG. B — FIRM-LEVEL AI ADOPTION, AIFE ENGINE (ILLUSTRATIVE)
IEO 2026
PL. I — IEO 2026
§03 · 造 · BUILDING

From research to running code.

01 · CO-FOUNDER & CFO · JAN 2026 — PRESENT
LinkScape

A student nonprofit, fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, turning technical ideas into accessible tools and educational programs. I oversee financial planning, sponsorships, and operations.

FLAGSHIP — RESONAITE

An adaptive audio platform combining generative music, DSP, and real-time EEG feedback. Project manager and full-stack developer.

02 · TEAM LEAD · DIAMOND CHALLENGE GLOBAL FINALIST
VitaTex

A low-burden smart garment: embedded sensing, on-device ML, AI-assisted insights. Directed strategy, market research, financial modeling, and the pitch at the University of Delaware finals.

03 · RESEARCHER & DEVELOPER · JUN 2026 — PRESENT
Ring-Ing Career Technologies

Market and user research, partnership pipelines, and shipped full-stack product features.

04 · CONFIRMED PARTICIPANT
HackMIT — first admitted high-school team
2026
Hack · Demo
§04 · 文 · WORDS

Essays, fiction, and arguments.

The other half of studying language is writing it. Creative work recognized with three Scholastic Gold Keys; competitive argument at the Harvard World Schools Debate Open; a standing interest in world literature, philosophy, and theology.

W-01 Creative piece — [ TITLE TBD — SEND ME THE REAL TITLES ] SCHOLASTIC GOLD KEY
W-02 Creative piece — [ TITLE TBD ] SCHOLASTIC GOLD KEY
W-03 Creative piece — [ TITLE TBD ] SCHOLASTIC GOLD KEY
W-04 Harvard WSDC Open — Quarterfinalist DEBATE · 2026
FULL PIECES CAN BE LINKED OR EXCERPTED HERE — SHARE THE TEXTS AND I'LL TYPESET THEM
§05 · 人 · THE PERSON

Off the page.

Portrait
PL. II — SHANGHAI, 2026
EDUCATIONShanghai Starriver Bilingual School, 2023 — exp. 2028. Weighted GPA 4.73 / 4.0, top 10% of class · SAT 1550 · TOEFL 118.
LEADERSHIPVice President, Treasury Department — bazaar, lottery, and school-wide budget allocation. Captain, Team China-1 at the IEO. Associate Secretary, Asian Community Center U30, supporting youth programming funded by the NYC Council and U.S. Congress.
TOOLBOXPython, deep learning, statistical modeling, full-stack development, RAG, signal processing · econometrics, causal inference, computational social science.
ROWING HEMA — HISTORICAL FENCING LEGO DESIGN WORLD LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY POLITICS
§06 · 谈 · NEXT CHAPTER

Whether you're a researcher, a founder, or an admissions reader — let's talk.

EMAIL
eric@linkscape.app
LINKEDIN
/in/liqian-yan
GITHUB
ericyan534-dev
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