Zheng Yuan

Dr. Zheng Yuan is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Natural Language Processing at the School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. He holds affiliated positions at the University of Cambridge and King's College London, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research focuses on NLP applications in education, healthcare, and multilingual systems.

Education:

• PhD in Natural Language Processing, University of Cambridge
• MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, University of Cambridge
• BSc(Eng) from Queen Mary University of London

Research: Dr. Yuan's work spans educational NLP, multilingual systems under low-resource conditions, and explainable machine learning. His group develops technologies for grammatical error correction, automated assessment, and cross-lingual applications, with significant contributions to computer-assisted language learning and computational creativity.

Publications: Recent works (2023-2025) demonstrate strong focus on educational NLP, multilingual systems, and LLM evaluation. Key themes include grammatical error correction for code-switched languages, creativity assessment frameworks, and robust evaluation methods for large language models across diverse linguistic contexts.

Awards:

• Winning systems at SemEval-2021 and CoNLL-2014
• Fellowship at Trinity College Cambridge
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Grants & Advising: Principal Investigator for Royal Society grant 'Large Language Models as Agents for Intelligent Language Tutoring' (2025-2027). Actively supervises PhD students in NLP and machine learning, welcoming new research collaborations.

Affiliations: Member of Alan Turing Institute (Data-Centric Engineering), King's Institute for AI, and ACL committees. Organizes major NLP workshops including ACL/NAACL BEA workshops and AIED tutorials.