I am Siyuan Liu, a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bologna. I have strong experience in project coordination, stakeholder communication, product development, and team leadership across academia, media, and tech companies. I specialize in bridging research and real-world applications, with hands-on experience in education products, media reporting, and AI language projects.

Siyuan Liu

I am Siyuan Liu, a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bologna. I have strong experience in project coordination, stakeholder communication, product development, and team leadership across academia, media, and tech companies. I specialize in bridging research and real-world applications, with hands-on experience in education products, media reporting, and AI language projects.

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I am Siyuan Liu, a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bologna. I have strong experience in project coordination, stakeholder communication, product development, and team leadership across academia, media, and tech companies.

I specialize in bridging research and real-world applications, with hands-on experience in education products, media reporting, and AI language projects.

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Skills

Experience Level

Intermediate

Language

Chinese
Fluent
English
Advanced
Italian
Advanced

Work Experience

AI Large Language Model Evaluation Linguistics Expert (Part time) at ByteDance & MiroMind
September 1, 2025 - January 1, 2026
Served as a linguistics expert for large language model (LLM) evaluation, focusing on language quality, pragmatics, and cross-linguistic performance. Designed and reviewed evaluation criteria for grammar, coherence, register, and task fulfillment. Provided expert feedback to improve model responses in multilingual and educational scenarios.
Bilingual Parallel Corpus Project Lead (Part time) at Shanghai Cultural Trade Language Service Base
November 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022
Led a 5-member team in building and processing English–Chinese parallel corpora for language service applications. Coordinated data collection, cleaning, alignment, and quality control workflows. Worked closely with domain experts to ensure terminological consistency and usability for translation and NLP tasks.
AI Lab, Intelligent Voice Department (Intern) at Bytedance Inc
February 1, 2021 - June 1, 2021
Coordinated and managed a 20-member cross-functional annotation and evaluation team. Facilitated collaboration between linguists, engineers, and project managers. Ensured quality control of language data used for speech and NLP model training.
Language Data Engineer (Intern) at Ctrip Inc.
January 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019
Assisted in data preprocessing and corpus organization for AI applications. Supported data pipeline development and quality checking.

Education

PhD in Applied Linguistics at University of Bologna
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2026
Visiting PhD in Applied Linguistics at University of Ljubljana, Center for Language Resources and Technologies
March 1, 2025 - June 1, 2025
MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Central China Normal University, Department of Chinese Language and Literature
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2022
BA in Chinese Literature and Language at Central South University, Department of Humanities
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2019

Qualifications

Marco Polo Scholarship (University of Bologna)
January 1, 2025 - March 16, 2026
MAECI Scholarship (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation)
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025

Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Software & Internet