Curriculum vitae

born on September 16th, 1977

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University education

• 2007/12/06: Ph.D., Language Engineering Laboratory, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  Thesis: Language Evolution from a Simulation Perspective: On the Coevolution of Compositionality and Regularity
• 2003/03/30: M.Phil, School of Informatics and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
  Thesis: The Research of New Efficient Motion Estimation Algorithms
• 2000/06/26: B.A., School of Informatics and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
  Thesis: Design of Single-Route Cardiogram Sample & Analyzing Instrument

Research Interests

• Evolutionary Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Neuroscience;
• Computational Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, Complex Adaptive Systems;

Working Experiences

• 2010/09―now: Research Scholar in the Society of the Scholars in the Humanities, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2009/09―2010/02: British Academy of Sciences Visiting Fellow, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• 2008/09―2009/08; 2010/03―2010/08; 2011/05―2011/06: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
• 2007/11―2008/08: Postdoctoral Fellow (supported by the EU ECAgents project), Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Teaching Experiences

• 2011—2012: Lecturer of Language Evolution (LIN2057), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
• 2010—2011: Co-Lecturer of Language, Thought and Culture (LIN1003) and Current Issues in Linguistics (LIN6029), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
• 2010—2011: Lecturer of Language Evolution (LIN6030), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
• 2010/07: Invited Lecturer of the China Linguistics Summer Institute (CLSI2010), Nankai University, Tianjin, China;
• 2009: Guest Lecturer of Simulating Language (P03401) and Origins and Evolution of Language (P01593), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;
• 2004―2007: Teaching Assistant of Foundation Circuit Theory (ELE1110A) and Professional Engineering Practice (ELE2860A/B), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;

Certificates & Awards

• Program Committee: Evolang9: The International Conference on Language Evolution. Kyoto, Japan (2012/03);
• Program Committee: ECAL’11 Satellite Workshop: Alife Approaches to Artificial Language Evolution. Paris, France (2011/08);
• Editorial Review Board: International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS) (since 2011);
• External Examiner: French Research Agency (ANR) (since 2011);
• External Examiner: National Science Foundation of USA (NSF) (since 2011);
• External Examiner: European Research Council (ERC) (since 2010);
• Invited Reviewers: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Communications in Computational Physics, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research, Physica A;
• Certificate of Teaching Assistance (2005/01): issued by the Chinese University of Hong Kong;
  
• Associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences: started from 2004;
  
• The 3rd Prize of the National Undergraduate Students Electronic Design Competition (2003/10);
  
• Certificate of Mid-level Programmer (1998/10): issued by the Ministry of Information Industry, China;

Research Activities

• 2010/06: Attend the Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences 2010: The Origins of Language, held by the Cognitive Sciences Institute, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada;
• 2009/02: Attend the 3rd International School of Design of Collective Intelligence (DECOI 2009), held by Lorentz Center: International Centers for Workshops in the Sciences, Leiden, The Netherlands;
• 2007/07: Attend the International Summer Atelier: Modeling Language Evolution with Computational Construction Grammar (Erice 2007), held by Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy;
• 2004/07: Attend the Complex System Summer School (CSSS 2004), held by Santa Fe Institute, Qingdao, China;

Research Projects

• 2011/09―2014/08: Co-Investigator: Hong Kong GRF Project: The Complexity of Isolating Languages;
• 2010/01―2012/12: Co-Investigator: Chinese Philosophy & Social Science Project: Chinese Dialects Geographical Information Database (09JZD0007).
• 2007/11―2008/08: Participate: European ECAgents project (IST-FET-1940); 
• 2007―2008: Participate: Hong Kong RGC Project: Language Evolution (2160327);
• 2001/06―2003/06: Participate: Tianjin NSF Project: Motion Estimation and Compensation;
• 2000/02―2001/12: Participate: Chinese NSF Project: Image De-noising and Edge Detection;
• 1999/12―2000/09: Participate: Tianjin NSF Project: Residential Area Alarming System;