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Yubo Wang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University. Currently serves as Associate Dean of the School and Deputy Director of “National Institute of Chinese Language Matters and Social Development.” I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, with postdoctoral research conducted in both Linguistics and Information Science. I am the principal investigator of the Leading Project on Strategic Research in Key Areas of National Language and Script Commission (National Language Talent Development), and the leader of Wuhan University’s Young Humanities and Social Sciences Team "Language Big Data and Socio-Humanistic Computing." I am also a core member of the "Policy Intelligence Reasoning Team" and has been selected for the Luojia Young Scholars Program and the National Advanced Language Research Training Program. I was successively funded by the China Scholarship Council under the "Visiting Scholar Program for Outstanding Young Backbone Teachers in Higher Education Institutions" and conducted academic training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. I was also supported by Wuhan University's Overseas Training Program for Outstanding Young Talents and carried out research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France.

I concurrently serves as a "Tianshan Scholar" at Xinjiang University, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at its School of Chinese Language and Literature, Editorial Board Member of Expert Recommendations from the National Language Commission, Executive Editor of Chinese Language Situation, Deputy Director of the Public Opinion Monitoring Division at the Hubei Research Base for Language and Intelligent Information Processing, Executive Member of the Hubei Linguistics Society, Member of the Chinese Linguistic Modernization Division, and member of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH).

My research interests include sociolinguistics, quantitative linguistics, digital humanities, social computing, language big data, natural language processing, and linguistic situation monitoring. I have led more than 20 major projects, including 2 National Social Science Fund Projects, 2 Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Projects, 1 Leading Projects in Key Areas of National Language Commission, 3 Key Projects of the National Language Commission, 2 Special and General Grants from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and university-level AI and digital teaching innovation programs.

I have published more than 60 articles in both Chinese and English, in journals such as Language Strategic Studies, Studies of the Chinese Language, Language Research, Glottometrics, and The Electronic Library. His work has been reprinted multiple times in China Social Sciences Digest and Replicated Materials from Renmin University of China. I have published two monographs, co-edited one textbook, and contributed to over 10 edited volumes. Two of his achievements have been awarded the CTTI Excellent Think Tank Results (Second Prize). I have received honors such as the Second Prize in the 12th Wuhan University Young Faculty Teaching Competition and Excellent Aid-to-Xinjiang Cadre at Xinjiang University.

I have been deeply involved in the compilation of national blueprints including China Language Life Report, Development Report on China’s Language and Writing System, and China Language Policy Research Report as an editorial board member and section host. Over 20 of his policy reports have been adopted by the National Language Commission and relevant departments of the Ministry of Education.

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses such as Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Quantitative Linguistics, Multimodal Linguistics, Cyberlinguistics, Research Methods and Tools in Linguistics, and Language and National Conditions.