Summary
Xia Cui is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and applied machine learning. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Web Science and Big Data Analytics from UCL, and her work sits at the intersection of NLP, multimodal learning and real-world ML applications. Xia led a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with VoiceIQ and the University of Manchester to build an AI system that detects vulnerability indicators in telephone conversations, demonstrating a practical focus on ethically sensitive ML deployment. As a former research fellow, graduate teaching assistant and external examiner, she combines hands-on systems development with extensive teaching and assessment experience. Based in the UK, she brings both deep technical knowledge and an unusual emphasis on human-centred evaluation of language technologies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Awarded, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Awarded at University of Liverpool
University College London
English, Chinese, Japanese