Educational Background

o 2004, Peking University, Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory

o 2001, Shanghai International Studies University, M.A. in English Language and Literature

o 1998, Sichuan International Studies University, B.A. in English Language and Literature

Work Experience

o 2019–Present, Language Centre, Tsinghua University, Associate Professor

o 2007–2019, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Associate Professor

o 2004–2007, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Lecturer

Courses

Understanding Public Speaking;

English for Academic Purposes (A): Research Paper Writing

Research Interests

Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Corpus Linguistics

Awards and Honors

Tsinghua University Awards:

2024, High-Quality Course (Understanding Public Speaking);

2024, Model Course & Teacher for Character Education (Understanding Public Speaking);

2021, Second Prize, Teaching Achievement Award;

2020, Special Award for Excellence in Online Teaching;

2020, Outstanding Staff Award;

2020, Outstanding Communist Party Member (School of Humanities);

2019, Second Prize, Outstanding Class Advisor Award;

2019, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor;

2019, Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor;

2012, First Prize, Teaching Achievement Award;

2011, Second Prize, Outstanding Class Advisor Award;

2006, Second Prize, Young Faculty Teaching Competition

Language Centre Awards:

2019–2024, Outstanding Staff Award;

2019/2020/2021/2023/2024, Teaching Excellence Award

National/International Speech Competition Instructor Awards:

2024, Third Prize (Global Finals Instructor), The 6th Belt and Road Youth English Speech Competition (China Daily);

2023, Gold Prize (National Finals Instructor), FLTRP·ETIC Cup National Foreign Language Competence Competition (English Speech);

2014/2015/2018, Champion Instructor Award, FLTRP Cup National English Speech Competition;

2019/2020, First Prize Instructor Award, FLTRP Cup National English Speech Competition;

2009, Champion Instructor Award, 21st Century Cup National English Speech Competition

Achievements

o Bai, X. (2023). Describing the grammatical knowledge of Chinese words for natural language processing. In C.-R. Huang, S.-K. Hsieh, & P. Jin (Eds.), Chinese language resources: Data collection, linguistic analysis, annotation and language processing. Spinger Nature.

o Zhao, K., & Bai, X. (2023). Linguistic, cognitive, social, and educational perspectives on English academic literacy development in the Asia-Pacific. In: W.O. Lee, P. Brown, A.L. Goodwin, & A. Green (Eds) International Handbook on Education Development in Asia-Pacific. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2327-1_138-1

o Bai, X., & Yu, S. (2023). Rule-based machine translation. In S.-W. Chan (Ed.), Routledge encyclopedia of translation technology (2nd ed.). London and New York: Routledge.

o Zhan, W., & Bai, X. (2022). Parts of speech in Chinese and how to identify them. In C.-R. Huang, Y.-H. Lin, I.-H. Chen, & Y.-Y. Hsu (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of Chinese linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

o Duan, X., Zan, H., Bai, X., & Zähner, C. (2020). Reusable phrase extraction based on syntactic parsing. In M. Sun, S. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. He, & G. Rao (Eds.), Chinese computational linguistics. Springer International Publishing.

o Zhan, W., & Bai, X. (2019). Online language resources: Advances, applications, and challenges. In C.-R. Huang, Z. Jing-Schmidt, & B. Meisterernst (Eds.), Routledge handbook of Chinese applied linguistics. London and New York: Routledge.

o Zhan, W., & Bai, X. (2016). Sentence types. In C.-R. Huang & D. Shi (Eds.), A reference grammar of Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

o Yu, S., & Bai, X. (2015). Rule-based machine translation. In S.-W. Chan (Ed.), The Routledge encyclopedia of translation technology. London and New York: Routledge.

o Bai, X., Zähner, C., Zan, H., & Yu, S. (2014). The Chinese-English contrastive language knowledge base and its applications. In M. Sun, Y. Liu & J. Zhao (Eds.), Chinese computational linguistics and natural language processing based on naturally annotated big data. Springer International Publishing.

Contact Information (Email)

bxj@tsinghua.edu.cn