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PhD 

• Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (2019–2024)
• Dissertation: Preferred Viewing Locations and Wrap-up Effects in Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading
• Supervisor: Prof. Kit Chunyu
• Outstanding Research Papers Awards, 2023–2024

MA 

• Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Ocean University of China (2016–2019)
• Thesis: Concreteness Effects of Chinese and English Nouns and Verbs: Evidence from Eye Tracking
• Supervisor: Prof. Chen Shifa
• Outstanding Graduates, 2019

BA 

• English, Shanxi University (2012–2016)
• Minor: Japanese
• National Graduate Entrance Exam Waiver for Recommendations

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Professional memberships: AAAL, AALA (Macau), Psychonomic Society, CogSci, etc.

Ad-hoc journal reviewers: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Psychological Research, etc.

Postdoctoral Fellow (F/T)

• Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (Jul 2024–Jun 2026)

Research Assistant (P/T)

• City University of Hong Kong (2023–2024; data analysis)
• City University of Hong Kong (2021–2022; eye-tracking experiment design & data collection)

Teaching Assistant (P/T)

• Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (2019–2023), assisting course leaders for courses including: 
• LT2204 Language and Mind
• LT3345 Discovering and Managing Terms
• LT3352 Scientific & Technical Translation
• LT4256 Topic in Neurolinguistics & Psycholinguistics
• LT5403 Semantics and Discourse
• LT5407 Research Methodology for Applied Linguistics
• LT5421 Corpus Linguistics
• LT5451 Pedagogical Grammar: Chinese & English
• LT5459 Terminology and Translation
• LT5601 Stylistics and Translation

BA Program

BOE304 English–Chinese / Chinese–English Translation I

BAL312 Multimodal Communication

Psycholinguistics, esp. reading comprehension by eye tracking, ERP, behavioural paradigms

Translation processing cognition

Oculomotor control modeling (preferred saccade location, fixation predictions, wrap-up effects, frequency/POS effects in Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading)

Wu, Y., & Kit, C. (2026). Reverse wrap-up effects by reading scenario, boundary salience, and word position: Novel evidence from eye movements in natural Chinese reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02766-7 (SSCI, Q1; five-year JIF: 4.2)

Gu, X., Qiao, W., Zhao, X., & Wu, Y. (2026). Review of Researching multilingually… Language Problems and Language Planning. (SSCI, Q3)

Wu, Y., & Kit, C. (2023). Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading. Scientific Data, 10(1), 899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02813-9 (SCI, Q1; five-year JIF: 8.9)

Chen, S., Peng, Y., Wu, Y. (co-first author), Zhao, L., & Yang, L. (2020). Processing object code-switching in sentence contexts for Chinese learners of English: An ERP study. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice, 171(3), 10–20. (CSSCI)

Chen, S., Wu, Y. (co-first author), Peng, Y., Zhao, L., & Yang, L. (2018). Sentence-level processing mechanism of subject code-switching in Chinese learners of English: An ERP study. Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, 41(1), 81–89. (CSSCI)

Wu, Y. (2026). Advancing corpus-based comparative studies on sentence and passage reading: Insights from HKC. AAAL 2026, Chicago, USA.

Wu, Y., & Kit, C. (2025). Flexible saccade targeting… International Conference on Cognitive Science 2025, Tokyo, Japan.

Wu, Y., & Kit, C. (2025). Wrap-up effects… 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, USA.

Wu, Y., Qin, J., & Kit, C. (2024). Translators’ cognitive-effort allocation… 10th International Symposium on Cognitive Studies in Translation, Macao, PRC.

Wu, Y., & Kit, C. (2024). Preferred viewing location during Chinese reading… 22nd ECEM, Maynooth, Ireland.

Wu, Y., & Kit, C. (2023). Where and when to move eyes for Chinese readers… 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, USA.

Kit, C. (PI). CityU RAE Impact Case Study: large-scale Chinese reading corpus of eye movements (2024–2026). Role: paper drafting; workshop holding.

Kit, C. (PI). GRF 9042736: Cognitive effort distribution to translation subtasks by eye tracking (2019–2023). Role: experiment design; recruitment; analysis; drafting.

Kit, C. (PI). CityU SRG 7005708 (2021–2023); SRG 7005411 (2020–2022). Role: data analysis.

Kit, C. (PI). GRF 9042276: Chinese reading corpus for machine learning of unconscious word segmentation (2016–2020). Role: analysis; interpretation; drafting.

Chen, S. (PI). National Social Science Fund 14BYY061: ERP studies of code-switching (2018–2020). Role: analysis; plotting; drafting.

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Outstanding Research Papers Awards, City University of Hong Kong (2023–2024)

Research Postgraduate Studentship (UGC-funded), City University of Hong Kong (2019–2023)

National Scholarship for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education, P.R.C. (2018–2019)

Outstanding Graduates, Ocean University of China (2019)