Zheng Yuan

Zheng Yuan

zheng.yuan1 (at) sheffield.ac.uk

I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. My research focuses on machine learning and deep learning for natural language processing (NLP), with applications across education, healthcare, creativity, social media, and finance. My group and I work on a wide range of NLP tasks, including grammatical error correction, automated assessment, summarisation, machine translation, information extraction, text classification, sentiment analysis, and emotion detection. Our current projects explore computer-assisted language learning (CALL), human-centered NLP in educational settings, computational models of code-switching (mixing multiple languages within a sentence), and creative AI.

Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, and a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. I hold a PhD in Natural Language Processing and an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, as well as a BSc(Eng) from Queen Mary University of London.

I am affiliated with The Alan Turing Institute, contributing to projects within the Data-Centric Engineering Programme. I also hold affiliated staff positions at the University of Cambridge and King's College London, and I am a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

I welcome PhD applications in the areas of NLP and machine learning -- feel free to reach out if you're interested in joining my research group.

Research Interests

I occasionally offer consultancy services in NLP, computational linguistics, and machine learning. Please feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in collaborating.

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