Scholar
Zheng Yuan
Google Scholar ID: 7B4GHsMAAAAJ
Associate Professor, University of Sheffield; Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,464
H-index
17
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
61
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Area Chair for ACL, EMNLP (since 2022)
- Editorial Board Member for PeerJ Computer Science (since 2022)
- Treasurer of ACL SIGEDU (since 2021)
- Member of the ACL Professional Conduct Committee (since 2021)
- Regular Programme Committee Member for ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP, COLING, AIED, etc.
- Reviewer for journals including TACL, Computational Linguistics, IEEE TASLP, and others
- Co-organiser of multiple international workshops and tutorials (e.g., BEA at ACL 2025, AIED 2025 tutorial)
- Fellow of ASEFClassNet18 Faculty Collaboration (2025–)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 2024–)
- Member of King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence (2023–)
- Member of AGI Odyssey Executive Committee (2023–)
Research Experience
- Former Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at King's College London
- Former Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge
- Currently Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Sheffield
- Affiliated with The Alan Turing Institute, contributing to the Data-Centric Engineering Programme
- Holds affiliated staff positions at the University of Cambridge and King's College London
Background
- Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield
- Research focuses on machine learning and deep learning for natural language processing (NLP)
- Applications span education, healthcare, creativity, social media, and finance
- Works 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
- Current projects include computer-assisted language learning (CALL), human-centered NLP in educational settings, computational models of code-switching, and creative AI
