Xiaorui Jiang

Dr. Xiaorui Jiang is a Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Sheffield's Information School. Previously, he held roles including Lecturer at Zhejiang University of Technology (2013–2016), Senior Researcher in NLP at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (2015–2016), and positions at Aston University and Coventry University. His research focuses on NLP applications in scientometrics, healthcare, law, and digital humanities. He has secured significant research funding and received awards such as the Academic Staff of the Year Award (2024).

Education:

• BSc/MSc: Harbin Institute of Technology (2005/2007)
• PhD: Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013)
• PGCHE: Aston University (2018)

Research Interests:

• NLP for scientometrics (citation analysis, metascience)
• Healthcare NLP (clinical text mining, medical coding)
• Legal informatics (legal document analysis)
• Applications in digital humanities and urban analytics

Grants & Awards:

• £3.5M government funding in smart city projects (ZJUT)
• Excellent Researcher Award (ZJUT, 2015)
• Academic Staff of the Year (2024)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2019)

Teaching: Contributes to modules in databases, responsible data science, and machine learning. Supervises postgraduate projects in NLP and scientometrics.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the Law and Tech Lab (Maastricht University) on legal informatics. Leads cross-disciplinary NLP research at Coventry University.