Room 7078

Nanhu Building

382 Xiongchu Avenue

Wuhan, China

I am an Associate Professor at Central China Normal University. With the university, I am affiliated with the School of Computer Science, the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Learning, and National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center for Network Media.

Previously, I was a Lecturer/Researcher at Utrecht University in the Natural Language Processing Group. I obtained my PhD at Utrecht University supervised by Prof. Kees van Deemter and Dr. Chenghua Lin. I received a Master degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (MSc); and a Bachelor degree in e-Commerce Engineering with Law from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (B.B.A) and Queen Mary University of London (B.Eng). I have interned at Samsung AI Lab (2021), Microsoft Research Asia (2019), and Samsung Research Center Beijing (2016-2017).

Research

Natural Language Processing, particularly:

  • Large Language Models
  • Dialogue Systems
  • Natural Language Generation
  • Affective Computing
  • Computational Cognitive Science

Interdiscipline Research between NLP (esp. LLMs) and Humanities, particularly:

  • (Chinese) Linguistics: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Language Production
  • Psychology: Psycholinguistics and Counselling
  • Pedagogy
  • Human Geography

Academic Services

  • Senior Area Chair: EMNLP 2025
  • Area Chair: INLG 2019, EACL 2022
  • Program Committee: ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AACL, CCL, INLG, EACL, NLPCC, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, DialDoc, MM-NLG, WiNLP
  • Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, Neurocomputing, Computer Speech and Language, Natural Language Engineering, Knowledge based Systems, Information Fusion, Cognitive Computation, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Lingua, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, PLOS ONE, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Robotica, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing