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Xiaorui Jiang (姜晓睿)

Appointment                                            

Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Data Science

The Information School (Health Informatics Group, Information Retrieval Group)

University of Sheffield, UK

Email: xiaorui.jiang@coventry.ac.uk

Visiting Assistant Professor, @ Law & Tech Lab, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, NLD

Previously I was an Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing in the Research Centre for Computational Sciences and Mathematical Modelling, Coventry University (Jan 2021-May 2024), temporally a Senior Researcher in Natural Language Processing at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan (Dec 2019-Sep 2020), a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics (now School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies), Aston University (Part-time, Sep 2015 ~ March 2016, Full-time, March 2016 ~ June 2019), and a Lecturer in Intelligent Systems at School of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, China (July 2013 ~ March 2016). Before that I worked in the Fujitsu R&D Centre as an intern software engineer (in natural language processing) before I started to pursue PhD study (Jan 2008-Aug 2008).

ORCID: 0000-0003-4255-5445 

Awards:

• 2015, Excellent Researcher Award, Zhejiang University.

• 2023, Nomination for Outstanding Supervisor Award, Faculty of Environment, Engineering and Computing, Coventry University.

• 2024, Academic Staff of the Year Award, College of Engineering, Environment and Science, Coventry University.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2009-2013.

  • Thesis: "Scientific Literature Network Analysis: Academic Ranking, Schools-of-thought Analysis and Pattern Query Processing"

  • Supervisor: Prof. Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

• MSc in Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2005-2007.

  • Thesis: "Radial Arterial Doppler Blood Flow Signal Analysis and its Applications in Medical Diagnosis"

  • Supervisor: Prof. Kuanquan Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

• BSc in Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2001-2005.

  • Thesis: "Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Shallow Lexical Features and Classifier Ensembles"

  • Supervisor: Prof. Jianmin Yao, Soochow University, China

• RA in MedInfo Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 2008-2009

Personal:

My wife holds a Doctoral degree in Classical Chinese Literature (Tsinghua University, China, July 2013), was a Postdoc in Literature and Culture in the Song Dynasty (Zhejiang University, China, Apr 2016), and is now an independent scholar and writer in Ancient Chinese Literature, Culture and Heritage. 

The following is a short list of her selected articles (mainly her thesis).

• 大道与小名——论陆龟蒙的尚才自娱观（Nanjing University, 2005）

• 文与学——博学宏词科与王应麟学术特点研究（Tsinghua University, 2008）Words and Knowledge: Ci Ke and the Scholarship of Wang Yinglin

• 南宋风土记研究（Tsinghua University, 2013）Research on Notes of Local Geography and Customs in Southern Song

• 筑、居、游的散文史——从魏晋到唐宋（Zhejiang University, 2016）The History of Prose on Building, Living and Travelling: From Wei-Jin to Tang-Song

She has contributed to the following books (in Chinese)

• 《宋词鉴赏大辞典》,  刘石主编, 中华书局, 2011年. 

• 《问吧11: 有关元朝的101个趣味问题》, 李飞跃等, 中华书局, 2009年.                                                

This is a personal blog of ours (which has now unfortunately been closed by the NetEase blog service). Although it has unfortunately not been regularly updated for quite a long time, you can still find interesting articles there ...