SU Qi is a tenured associate professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Peking University (PKU), with a joint appointment in the School of EECS and the Institute of Artificial Intelligence. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from PKU in 2007, followed by postdoctoral training at both PKU and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her main research fields include natural language processing, computational linguistics, and corpus linguistics. She has been honored with awards such as the NG Teng Fong Excellent Young Scholar Award and the Wang Xuan Young Scholar Award from PKU, as well as the First Rank of the Science and Technology Prize from the Chinese Institute of Electronics. Dr. Su has served as the PI for grants funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Beijing Social Science Foundation. Additionally, she has extensive experience teaching computing technology to Liberal Arts students through courses such as Introduction to Computing, Computer Practicum, Computational Linguistics, and Corpus Linguistics. Her research papers have been published in conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, as well as journals like Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and Neural Networks. Her current research focuses on developing NLP methodologies for ancient Chinese texts and analyzing historical corpora for cultural insights.
Dr. Su is one of the founders of the Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center. She played a key role in organizing the Peking University Online Workshop on Digital Humanities in 2020 and the Peking University Digital Humanities Summer Workshop in 2022. Currently, she is responsible for creating the "Digital Humanities and Foreign Language Talents" certificate program at Peking University.
Under her leadership, students from the Peking University Digital Humanities Open Laboratory have achieved pioneering results in cutting-edge fields such as natural language processing of classical Chinese texts, intelligent understanding of multimodal corpora, corpus and language model construction, and cultural evolution analysis. In this summer workshop, she will explain natural language processing techniques and corpus analysis methods based on ChatGPT.