Education

• Ph.D. in Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2023
• M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Beihang University, 2018
• B.A. in English, Beihang University, 2015

Professional Experience

• City University of Hong Kong
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, 08/23–present
  • Member, One Health Research Cluster, CLASS, 08/23–Present
  • Member, Frontiers in Professional Communication Lab, Department of English, 05/24–present

Academic Honors & Awards

• Conference Paper Awards: AMPRA (2022), ICA (2021, 2020), NCA (2022)
• Outstanding Doctoral Student, Department of Communication Studies, UT Austin, 2023
• University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, Graduate School, UT Austin, 2022–2023
• Doctoral Honors Seminar Participant (Communication Theory and Research), NCA, 2022
• Editors’ Choice Article Award, Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics, 2021
• Graduate Fellowship, Moody College of Communication, UT Austin, 2019–2022
• Provost Supplement Fellowship, UT Austin, 2018–2019
• Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, UT Austin, 2018–2019

Professional Service

• Reviewer
  • Discourse, Context & Media, East Asian Pragmatics, Health Communication, Journal of Computational Social Science, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Politeness Research, Journal of Pragmatics, Language Sciences, Pragmtics and Society
  • Springer
  • International Communication Association Conference, National Communication Association Conference
• Executive Board Member, International Association of Language and Social Psychology, 2024–2026.
• Conference Program Co-Chair, 8th LSP & Professional Communication Conference, 2024–2025.
• Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, The Conflict Conference 2020, Austin, TX, USA, 2019–2020.

Professional Memberships

• China Pragmatics Association
• International Association of Language and Social Psychology
• International Association of Pragmatics
• International Communication Association
• National Communication Association