I am the 1st-year PhD student at the LAnguages, Machines & Brains Lab, CityU, advised by Prof. Jixing Li. Before that, I got my B.A. in English from XJTU, advised by Prof. Xiaopeng Zhang. I am focusing on applying computational models to understand how the human brain represents and computes semantic information during language comprehension.

Education

🇭🇰 City University of Hong Kong

• Ph.D. student in Linguistics
• M.A. in Corpus & Empirical Linguistics, with Distinction
• Thesis: Reading Comprehension Revealed by Behavioral, Neural, and Computational Models

🇨🇳 Xi’an Jiaotong University

• B.A. in English, Linguistics Specialization
• Thesis: Testing the Relationship of Lexical Complexity to the Rated Quality of TEM-4 Oral Narratives

🇺🇸 University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Visiting International Student
  
  

Research experiences

LAnguages, Machines, and Brains Lab, CityU

• Research Assistant in Computational Neurolinguistics
• Advisor: Prof. Jixing Li

Language & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, XJTU

• Undergraduate Research Assistant
• Advisor: Prof. Xiaopeng Zhang

iFLYTEK, Silk Road Headquarter

• English Automatic Speech Recognition Intern
  
  

Language

Mandarin Chinese (native), English, Spanish, Italian

Python, R, SPSS, HTML, MATLAB, LaTeX, Shell Scripting, Markdown

Linguistics Tools: NLTK, Praat, Stanford Parser, TAALES, TAALED, Lexical Complexity Analyzer, LancsBox, AntConc…

A fun fact about me 🥳

My Chinese first name “Zhengwu” pronounced as [dʒə̀ŋ ǔ], which means “high noon” in English and it is also my birth time.