Jian Zhu
Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJian Zhu is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia with a PhD bridging linguistics and scientific computing and over a decade of experience in language research. She has published in top NLP venues such as EMNLP and NAACL and brings deep hands-on familiarity with speech recognition, synthesis pipelines, and broader NLP tasks. Prior roles include a postdoc at the University of Michigan and industry research at Curai Health where she applied medical NLP methods. Her work combines theoretical linguistics insight with practical machine learning experiments, enabling robust models that respect linguistic structure. Based in Vancouver, she maintains an active academic profile and personal site showcasing code and publications. Colleagues describe her as a researcher who translates cross-disciplinary ideas into reproducible systems and real-world applications.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics and Scientific Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics and Scientific Computing at University of Michigan
Chinese, Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (63)
transformers10
pytorch10
convolutional-neural-networks10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
inference10
multimodal10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
clip10
natural-language-processing10
gemma10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zytian9/SemEval-2019-Task-6
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
lingjzhu/mtracker.github.io
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
MTracker is a tool for automatic splining tongue shapes in ultrasound images by harnessing the power of deep convolutional neural networks. It is developed at the Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan to address the need of splining a large-scale ultrasound project.
Contributions:80 commits, 2 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 years 10 months
convolutional-neural-networksconvolutional-networks
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