Summary
Yu-yun Chang is an Assistant Professor and computational linguist with nine years of experience specializing in NLP, semantics, and pragmatics. She earned a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from National Taiwan University, complemented by an MSc in Speech and Language Processing from Edinburgh and a visiting scholar stint at Ohio State. Her work bridges academic research and applied data science—teaching and mentoring while building reproducible research using Python and R and deploying services on AWS. Yu-yun has hands-on experience as a data scientist managing web and server infrastructure, and she frequently integrates corpus-driven semantic analysis into practical NLP systems. Based in Taiwan, she combines rigorous theoretical grounding with pragmatic engineering to translate linguistic insights into deployable tools and curricula.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Speech and Language Processing, Master of Science (MSc), Speech and Language Processing at The University of Edinburgh
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics at National Taiwan University
Visiting Scholar, Computational Linguistics, Visiting Scholar, Computational Linguistics at The Ohio State University
Chinese, Mandarin, English