Summary
Ye-ye Xu is a doctoral researcher in French linguistics with a computational linguistics minor, combining eight years of teaching, outreach, and interdisciplinary research experience across the US and UK. She designs and teaches undergraduate and graduate French courses, coordinates immersive study-abroad programs, and mentors peers while serving as a departmental and student-club leader at Indiana University Bloomington. Her background spans language pedagogy (PGCE Oxon), editorial leadership in academic publishing, and arts-driven community engagement as a concertmaster and music educator, bringing rare cross-disciplinary fluency to linguistic research. A functionalist designer by inclination, she blends qualitative fieldwork on French-based creoles with practical computational methods and curriculum development. Notably, she has rebranded and relaunched a peer-reviewed journal and produced multimedia outreach—skills that amplify the public reach of her scholarship.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, French Linguistics with a minor in Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, French Linguistics with a minor in Computational Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, Thesis - Distinction, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, Thesis - Distinction at University of Oxford
St Mary's Music School
European Legal Studies, Law, European Legal Studies, Law at University of Strasbourg
Associateship of King's College London (AKC), Associateship of King's College London (AKC) at King's College London
Chinese, French, Dutch, German, English, creoles and pidgins, french-based, Latin, breton