Summary
Yuming Zhai is a lecturer and NLP researcher based in Beijing with nine years of experience bridging academia and applied language technology. He earned a PhD from Université Paris-Saclay for work on automatic recognition of sub-sentential translation techniques and spent three years as a postdoc at Beijing Foreign Studies University working at the intersection of AI and human languages. Comfortable teaching programming, databases and NLP to undergraduates, he combines practical classroom experience with hands-on research in computational linguistics and text classification. His background spans multilingual linguistics, feature engineering, and tool implementation from internships to doctoral research, reflecting both engineering rigor and language expertise. Unusually for a lecturer, he brings proven experience building Java-based NLP tools and evaluation pipelines developed during his master's and PhD projects.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Linguistics, mention bien, Bachelor's degree, Linguistics, mention bien at Université de Rouen
Master, Natural Language Processing, Mention très bien, Master, Natural Language Processing, Mention très bien at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay
Bachelor's degree, French Language and Civilization, mention très bien, Bachelor's degree, French Language and Civilization, mention très bien at Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Chinese, French, English