Bin Shao

Bin Shao is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, and currently serves as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. His academic career spans decades with a focus on theoretical and applied linguistics.

His educational background includes:

• Bachelor of Chemical Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology
• Master of Applied Linguistics from Dalian University of Technology
• PhD from Zhejiang University

Professor Shao's research centers on English Lexicology, Language Variation and Change, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Translation Studies. He has published extensively in contrastive English-Chinese lexis, corpus-based language change analysis, and Rubaiyat translation studies. His methodological approach integrates cognitive frameworks with empirical corpus data to explore linguistic evolution and cross-linguistic phenomena.

As a Doctoral Supervisor, he mentors PhD candidates in linguistics. His teaching portfolio includes graduate courses in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, and undergraduate courses in English Lexicology, History of English Language, Sociolinguistics, and Corpus and Translation.