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Haoxiang Sun

Hi there 👋, I’m Haoxiang Sun (孙浩翔), a 4th-year undergrad at Renmin University of China, pursuing a dual degree in CS and Finance. My research focuses on Language Models. I am currently visiting UC Berkeley, fortunate to work with Sewon Min. Previously, I had a great time working with Manling Li and Zihan Wang at Northwestern, and with Xin Zhao at Renmin.

During my visit, I took CS 288: Advanced NLP (A+, highest score among ~150 students, taught by Sewon Min and Alane Suhr) and CS 294-258: Computational Models of Language Use (A+, top 4 out of ~25 students, taught by Alane Suhr).

Note: My UC Berkeley email hxiang.sun@berkeley.edu will soon be deactivated. Please reach me at hxiang.sun@gmail.com.

One of my favorite things about living in the Bay Area is exploring on foot and by public transit (BART, Caltrain, Muni, and more). A go-to adventure of mine is taking BART to Powell Street Station, walking through Chinatown up to Fisherman’s Wharf, and then strolling along the waterfront all the way back to Embarcadero Station. I also love riding buses across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Bay Bridge. Another frequent trip of mine is taking Caltrain from San Francisco all the way down to San Jose, grabbing a seat on the upper deck and enjoying the scenery along the way. I’m also a big fan of the vibe around Ocean Beach in San Francisco. When I’m not out exploring the Bay Area, I also enjoy playing Minecraft, especially on the Hypixel server, where my favorite game modes are Capture the Wool and Bed Wars (particularly Rush and Castle 40v40).

Publications & Preprints

Selected Awards

  1. 2026 SenseTime Scholarship 30 awardees nationwide
  2. 2024, 2025 National Scholarship (×2) Ministry of Education, top 0.4% nationwide
  3. 2024 Asia Team Champion Asia Terminal, hosted by Citadel | Citadel Securities
  4. 2022 Silver Medal, China Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) 2nd in the Anhui team at the final
  5. 2021, 2022 First Prize (×2), Chinese High School Mathematics League Anhui Province
  6. 2021 Gold Medal, China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad

Teaching

  1. 2026 Teaching Assistant, BAIR-NCKU Summer Program RAG course taught by Sewon Min

Blog Posts

  1. July 24, 2026 Kitchen Sink: Every Element This Site Can Render Life One page that uses every renderer in the pipeline: KaTeX math, highlighted code, footnotes, tables, and the whole prose scale. Handy for eyeballing typography after touching the CSS.