Donald Sturgeon(德龙), PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University from 2015 to 2017. Following that, he served as a research fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University from 2017 to 2019. Currently, he holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Sturgeon's primary research interests lie in digital humanities, particularly the application of digital methods in the study of ancient Chinese language, history, and literature. His current research projects include the construction of a crowdsourcing-based platform for annotating ancient texts and building knowledge graphs, the application of machine learning in discerning the writing dates of Chinese historical texts, and natural language processing for Classical Chinese.

Professor Sturgeon is the creator and manager of the "Chinese Text Project" (https://ctext.org (opens new window)), an initiative that has established an online open-access digital library. The project aims to provide access to classical Chinese texts for scholars worldwide and explores new ways of interacting with ancient texts through digital media technologies, surpassing the limitations of print media. The library currently houses over 30,000 works and contains over five billion characters, making it the largest database of classical Chinese literature.

In this summer workshop, Professor Sturgeon will demonstrate the methods and application cases of text reuse recognition based on digital text analysis techniques, incorporating platforms and tools such as ctext.