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Department of Computational Linguistics Language, Technology and Accessibility

Zifan Jiang

Zifan Jiang, M. Sc.

  • PhD Candidate
  • Language‚ Technology and Accessibility
Phone
+41763376465
Room number
AND-2-20

Hi, my name is Zifan (子凡) [tsɹ̩³ fan²] Jiang (蒋) [tɕjɑŋ³]

I am a third-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling and Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich. I work on automatic sign language processing and machine translation as part of the Flagship IICT Project. I have publications in top computational linguistics conferences (including ACL, EMNLP, EACL, LREC-COLING, and WMT) and regularly serve as a reviewer for ACL Rolling Review.

To cope with the visual-gestural nature of sign language, I also study sign language linguistics and computer vision. For the latter, I am now on a research visit at theVisual Geometry Group, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Andrew Zisserman until April 2025.

Since August 2021, I have been a scientific programmer on the SNSF project EVOPHON led by Prof. Dr. Steven Moran. There I developed expertise in phonetics, phonology, and audio signal processing, sometimes even including animal communication.

For prospective collaboration and supervision on a student (master thesis) project, please only write to me with a proposed idea and motivation, ideally attached with a brief CV and transcript to show your capability. I also recommend checking the CL project webpage and mailing list regularly.

I am open to exchange or internship opportunities! A brief CV of mine is here

Before being intrigued by languages and linguistics ...

I have a solid background in computer science and software engineering. For some years I was mainly engaged in Web development, which makes me experienced in topics including software engineering, computer network, human-computer interaction, programming languages, Web accessibility, and rich-text editors.

Publications

Find me on Google Scholar.

Teaching

Autumn 2024 Essentials in Text and Speech Processing 
Spring 2024 Intermediate Methods and Programming in Digital Linguistics 
Autumn 2023

Multimodality 101 for Advanced Methods for Text and Speech Processing 

Sign Language Processing (guest lecture) for Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility

Teaching Assistant for Essentials in Text and Speech Processing

Spring 2022 / Autumn 2022 / Autumn 2023

Intro to Machine Learning (guest lecture) for Intro to data science
Spring 2021 Teaching Assistant for Informatics II (data structures and algorithms)

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