Qiu Weiyun is an associate professor at Xueheng Research Institute and School of History, Nanjing University. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2013 from the School of Liberal Arts at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Lab for History and Thoughts at Taiwan Chengchi University. From 2017 to 2021, he worked at the School of History and Culture at Shandong University.

Prof. Qiu serves as a member of the editorial board for various journals related to digital humanities. He is a researcher at the Center for Chinese Thoughts, Painting and Calligraphy at the China Academy of Art, as well as a standing member of the Social Media Processing Committee of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China. He was honored as the "Author of Important Reprinted Sources of Copied Newspapers and Periodicals [History] (2022 Edition)" jointly by the Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Achievement Evaluation Research Center of Renmin University of China and the Books and Journals Data Center of Renmin University of China. He is the PI of a project funded by Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education, and participates in several projects supported by National Social Science Foundation of China and Natural Science Foundation of China.

Prof. Qiu teaches courses on the intellectual history of modern China, the study of the graphic image in modern Chinamodern Chinese images seminar, and innovative thinking and methodologymethods ofin digital humanities. He serves as a lecturer for several digital humanities-related courses in Nanjing University, Wuhan University, and Tsinghua University, teaching the research methods of digital conceptual history. He has authored the monograph "The Formation of Equality Concept in Modern China（1895-1915）The Formation of the Concept of Equality in Modern China (1895-1915)" (published by Taipei XinwenfengXinfeng Publishing House, 2015) and has published more than 30 journal papers both in China and abroad. Prof. Qiu’s main research focuses on the intellectual history of modern China, including the history of newspapers and periodicals in the late Qing Dynasty, the study of images and visual culture, the history of ideas/concepts, and digital humanities. He excels in combining humanistic thinking with computational methods to investigate issues in the intellectual historyhistory of concepts, conceptual history, and even image history. His current research interests include the digital transformation of conceptual history research methods, and complete history research based on integrated structured and unstructured data. In this summer workshop, he will teach how conceptual history research methods can transition to the digital realm and discuss future directions for sustained research.