Yves Ferstler is a visiting PhD student being hosted by the Discourse Processing Lab at the Department of Linguistics in Simon Fraser University. Yves is fascinated by the intersection of linguistics and computing science. “I found the work of Maite Taboada’s research lab to be very interesting.”

To learn about current research being conducted at the Discourse Processing Lab, visit the lab’s website. 

Home institution

Department of Computer Science, University of Quebec in Montreal

Interests

Large language models; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; computational linguistics 

Bio

“My name is Yves Ferstler, and I am currently beginning my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am supervised by Prof. Marie-Jean Meurs, and my research focuses on applying NLP techniques to support mental health practitioners and people in need of help. I am also exploring the application of NLP models across different domains. In January 2026, I joined the Discourse Processing Lab research group, supervised by Prof. Maite Taboada, to deepen my knowledge of linguistics. I’m not specializing in one domain, but rather discovering linguistics in general. For now, I’m here for one semester, from January to the end of April.”