Jian Zhu
A desktop linguist.
Department of Linguistics
University of British Columbia
jian.zhu@ubc.ca
Hi there! I am currently an assistant professor at the Linguistics Department at the University of British Columbia and an instructor for the UBC MDS-CL Program. I am primarily interested in spoken language processing, natural language processing and computational social science, with a focus on multilingual speech recognition/alignment, spoken information retrieval and the language dynamics in online communities. Trained as both a linguist and an engineer, I combine linguistic theories with data-driven methods in NLP, network science and machine learning.
Before that, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at Blablablab, UMSI. I had obtained my Ph.D. in Linguistics and Scientific Computing from the Department Linguistics and the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. During my Ph.D. years, I was fortunately advised by Pam Beddor and David Jurgens.
news
Jan 21, 2022 | The paper for Charsiu phonetic aligner has been accepted to ICASSP! |
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Nov 12, 2021 | The preview version of Charsiu phonetic aligner is out! |
Nov 8, 2021 | I will present my work at EMNLP 2021 this week! |