Erin Liu holding up a peace with a friend on a wooden overlook above a Taiwanese harbor, with docks, hills, blue water, and a cloudy sky behind them.

Erin's story

Erin Liu '25, MEng '27, enjoyed the office lifestyle while interning in Taiwan and was proud that she completed a thorough research project that had meaningful results. This experience confirmed her decision to pursue a PhD even more. 

"My host organization was the Hon Hai Research Institute of Foxconn.  My project was investigating state-of-art vision language models (VLMs) on picture-sentence semantic congruency."

  • Erin Liu with her thumbs up with four others in front of a plaque with Chinese writing in an office
" I oversaw the entire project, from coming up with the idea, literature review, designing my own data stimuli, recruiting human participants, testing on 28 different VLMs from 7 different model families, to writing a paper and submitting it to ACL Rolling Review, and finally, presenting it at the final internship presentation."
Erin Liu '25, MEng '27
Major and Class Year
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (6-4) & Brain and Cognitive Science (9), Class of 2025, MEng '27
MISTI program
Internship
Location
Taipei City, Taiwan
Host
Foxconn Electronics Inc
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