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PhD 

• Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong
• Dissertation: Preferred Viewing Locations and Wrap-up Effects in Hong Kong Corpus of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading
• Supervisor: Prof. Kit Chunyu

MA 

• Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Ocean University of China
• Thesis: Concreteness Effects of Chinese and English Nouns and Verbs: Evidence from Eye Tracking
• Supervisor: Prof. Chen Shifa

BA 

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

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

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

Postdoctoral Fellow (F/T), City University of Hong Kong (2024–2026)

Research Assistant (P/T), City University of Hong Kong (2023–2024; 2021–2022)

Teaching Assistant (P/T). City University of Hong Kong (2019–2023)

BA Program

BOE304 English–Chinese / Chinese–English Translation I

BAL312 Multimodal Communication

Psycholinguistics, language comprehension by eye tracking, ERP, behavioral paradigms

Translation processing cognition

Oculomotor control modeling based on multilingual eye-tracking-while-reading corpora

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 Journal Impact Factor: 4.2)

Gu, X., Qiao, W., Zhao, X., & Wu Y. (2026). Review of Researching multilingually: Conceptual and methodological failures, struggles and success [Edited by B. Goodman & B. Seilstad]. Language Problems and Language Planning (SSCI Q3, five-year Journal Impact Factor: 0.4).

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 Journal Impact Factor: 8.9)

Wu, Y. (2026). How word spacings shape Chinese-English sentence wrap-up effects: Novel evidence from eye tracking. Presented at Inaugural Frontier Forum on Positive Foreign Language Education Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Wu, Y. (2026). Advancing corpus-based comparative studies on sentence and passage reading: Insights from Hong Kong Corpus of Sentence and Passage Reading (HKC). Presented at AAAL 2026 (American Association of Applied Linguistics), Chicago, USA.

Qin, J., Wu, Y., & Kit C. (2025). Research on the modulation of translation phases on translators’ cognitive-effort allocation based on eye tracking. the XXIII FIT World Congress. Zurich, Switzerland.

Wu, Y. & Kit, C. (2025) Flexible Saccade Targeting Selections Modulated by Reading Scenario, Visual Complexity and Word Frequency in Chinese Natural Reading. Presented at the CogSci Asia-Pacific Meetup Kickoff: International Conference on Cognitive Science 2025, Tokyo, Japan.

Wu, Y. & Kit C. (2025). Wrap-up effects by reading scenario, boundary salience, and word position: Novel Evidence from eye movements in natural Chinese reading. Presented at 66th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, Denver, USA.

Wu, Y., Qin J., & Kit C. (2024). Research on Modulations of Relevant Factors on Translators’ Cognitive-Effort Allocation in Translation Process Based on Eye Tracking. Presented at 10th International Symposium on Cognitive Studies in Translation, Macao, PRC.

Wu, Y. & Kit C. (2024). Is There a Preferred Viewing Location during Chinese Reading? Novel evidence from Hong Kong Corpus (of Chinese Sentence and Passage Reading). Presented at 22nd European Conference on Eye Movements, Maynooth, Ireland.

Wu, Y. & Kit C. (2023). Where and When to move eyes for Chinese Readers? Evidence from Hong Kong Corpus of Reading Sentences and Passages by Eye Tracking. Presented at 64th Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, USA.

Project coordinator. CityU RAE Impact Case Study: large-scale Chinese reading corpus of eye movements (2024–2026).

Project coordinator. GRF 9042736: Cognitive effort distribution to translation subtasks by eye tracking (2019–2023).

Project coordinator. CityU SRG 7005708 (2021–2023); SRG 7005411 (2020–2022).

Project coordinator. GRF 9042276: Chinese reading corpus for machine learning of unconscious word segmentation (2019–2021).

Co-investigator. National Social Science Fund: 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)