Yao Yi, a third-year undergraduate student majoring in English at our university, attended the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 39) from December 5th to 7th, 2025, and delivered an academic paper presentation at the conference. PACLIC is a well-established international event in the interdisciplinary field of linguistics, information science and computing, serving as a vital platform for scholars worldwide to conduct academic exchanges and share research findings.

During the conference, Yao Yi delivered a presentation titled *Do Multimodal Large Language Models Have Good Taste? An Evaluation of MLLMs via the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test*. Focusing on the assessment of the aesthetic perception ability of multimodal large language models, this study closely follows the cutting-edge intersection of linguistics, computing technology and humanistic aesthetics, embodying interdisciplinary innovation value and earning positive comments and research suggestions from the attending scholars.

Looking back on the research process, Yao Yi admitted that it was a challenging academic exploration. Starting from the core issues of linguistics, she went through several stages including topic refinement, experiment design and paper revision. Under the careful guidance of Professor Qiu Zhuang, she became proficient in interdisciplinary research approaches and laid a solid academic foundation.

Most of the speakers at this conference were master's and doctoral students as well as senior scholars. Yao Yi's presentation as an undergraduate demonstrated her solid professional foundation and innovative spirit, which also verified the remarkable educational effectiveness of the Bachelor of Arts in English program of our university. Aligned with the talent demands of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the program offers two tracks, namely English Education (Secondary School) and English-Chinese/Chinese-English Translation, and constructs a "foundation-profession-practice" training system to provide strong support for students' academic development.