Contacts
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✉ zhuangqiu@cityu.edu.mo
⌨ S503室

Academic Qualifications 學歷:

PhD in Linguistics, MA in Psychology, University of California, Davis

Professional Memberships 專業會員資格:

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

Academic Experience 學術經歷:

2024 —                           Assistant Professor, City University of Macau, Macau SAR

2022 — 2024                 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK SAR

2017 — 2022                 Senior Lab Researcher, Ferreira Lab, University of California Davis, CA, US

Courses Taught 任教科目:

Spring 2025                  Multimodality and Literacies (AI Literacy), CityU Macau, Macau SAR

Fall 2021                       Languages of the World, UC Davis, USA

Summer 2020              Introduction to Linguistics, UC Davis, USA

2014 — 2016               College English, Peking University, PRC

Research Area / Research Interests 研究方向:

Computational psycholinguistics, LLMs, XPRAG, and psychometrics

Recent Major Publications (recent 5 years) 主要成果與著作 (近五年):

Buchanan, E. M., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., et al. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour. [Contributing author: Z. Qiu, listed among other co-authors]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x (SSCI/SCI, Q1)

Qiu, Z., Duan, X., & Cai, Z. G. (2025). Grammaticality representation in ChatGPT as compared to linguists and laypeople Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 1-15. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04907-8 (SSCI, Q1)

Qiu, Z. (2025). From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Mean-ing by Robin Cooper. Journal of Pragmatics, 235, 112–114. https://www.sciencedirect.com/

science/article/pii/S0378216624002121 (SSCI, Q1)

Qiu, Z., & Ferreira, F. (2022). “He May Certainly Have Forgotten”: Processing of Nested Epistemic Expressions. Discourse Processes. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2022.2077064 (SSCI, Q1)

Research Projects (recent 5 years) 研究項目(近五年):

Research Committee Direct Grants, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Role: Co-Investigator

Project Title: Utilizing Large Language Models in Second Language English Proficiency Assessment

Duration: March 2024 - February 2025

Amount Awarded: HKD 100,000