X. (Xiaoyu) Zhou
PhD student

Xiaoyu Zhou (周小渝) is a first-year PhD student at the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen, supervised by Dr. Federico Pianzola and Dr. Janina Wildfeuer. Her current research focuses on computational narrative analysis of webtoons in the infinite canvas format. She is also broadly interested in applying natural language processing and computer vision to multimodal communication research and to larger questions across the humanities.
Previously, Xiaoyu received a BA in Translation Studies, an MA in Digital Humanities, and worked as a research assistant on the GOLEM project (Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models, funded by the European Research Council (ERC StG)).
For more details, check her homepage.
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