Curriculum vitae
Academic appointments
Research Faculty
Institute of Language Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies · Guangzhou, China
Part-time Researcher
Research Center for Language, Aging and Care
Tongji University · Shanghai, China
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Jinan University · Guangzhou, China
College of Chinese Language and Culture
Supervisor: Prof. Yiping Zeng ↗
Visiting Ph.D. Student · Joint Doctoral Training
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, USA
Supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Host supervisor: Prof. Zhijun Wang ↗
M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Huaqiao University · Xiamen, China
Research Institute of Chinese Language Education
Supervisor: Prof. Yuxin Hao ↗
B.A. in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
Huaqiao University · Xiamen, China
College of Chinese Language and Culture
Supervisor: Prof. Yuxin Hao ↗
Research projects
Participation as a research team member
Vocabulary Research on Qiaopi (Overseas Chinese Correspondence)
National Social Science Fund of China · 20AZD127
Development of Chinese Interlanguage Syntactic Complexity Using Over 100 Statistical Indices
Center for Language Education and Cooperation · 22YH37B
Quantifying Chinese Interlanguage Syntactic Development with a Syntactically Annotated Corpus
National Social Science Fund of China · 21BYY113
Teaching & academic outreach
Founder, LingX — Studio of Empirical Methods in Linguistics
Academic outreach and training in linguistic data mining, Python programming, and SPSS statistics.
Courses developed: Linguistic Data Mining & Python Programming; Linguistic Data Mining & Practical SPSS Statistics.
Chinese Reading Tutorials & Academic Paper Appreciation
College of Chinese Language and Culture, Huaqiao University
Online teaching for intermediate and advanced Chinese learners.
Academic service
Journal reviewer
- Assessing Writing
- Lingua
- Linguistics Vanguard
Selected honors
- 2025Second Prize, Jinan University Graduate Innovation Forum
- 2024China Scholarship Council Scholarship
- 2023Fujian Provincial Outstanding Master’s Thesis
- 2021National Scholarship
Corpora & research tools
I have contributed to dependency-annotated corpora of native and L2 Chinese, corpora of Mainland and Southeast Asian Mandarin, literary style corpora, Chinese language teaching materials, and LLM-generated learner writing. My software work includes Chinese style assessment, agent-based style analysis, and multi-agent Chinese L2 writing evaluation.