Dr Zheng Yuan

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing

Dr Zheng Yuan
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Zheng.Yuan1@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Zheng Yuan
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DP
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Zheng Yuan is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the School of Computer Science at the University of 91Ö±²¥. Zheng is working on machine learning for natural language processing, including real-world applications in education, creativity, healthcare, social media, and finance. Before joining 91Ö±²¥, Zheng was a Lecturer in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow in Computer Science at Trinity College (Cambridge). Zheng holds 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.

Research interests
  • Educational technology (EdTech)
  • Language acquisition
  • Educational NLP
  • Multilingual NLP
  • Low-recourse NLP
  • Transfer and multi-task learning
  • Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning
  • Explainable machine learning