Esther G.

About

Esther is a PhD student focusing on Reasoning Robustness in Natural Language Processing under the supervision of Professors Michael Qizhe Shieh and Kan Min-Yen. She is currently a Student Member of the ACL Ethics Committee and also serves as a Graduate Tutor in NUS School of Computing.

Publications

1. Reasoning Robustness of LLMs to Adversarial Typographical Errors
   Esther Gan*, Yiran Zhao*, Liying Cheng, Mao Yancan, Anirudh Goyal, Kenji Kawaguchi, Min-Yen Kan, Michael Shieh
   *Equal Contribution
   EMNLP 2024 Main | PDF | Website | Code | Dataset
2. ComicVQA: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
   Esther Gan, Hannah Brown, David Herel, Kenji Kawaguchi, Min-Yen Kan, Michael Qizhe Shieh
   ACL 2026 Findings | PDF | Code | Dataset

Research Areas of Interest

Esther's research focuses on the foundations of reasoning in AI systems, including how reasoning can be evaluated, improved, and understood.

1. Designing benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for AI reasoning
2. Investigating techniques for improving AI reasoning