A picture of Zi beside a light installation. She has long hair and is smiling.

My name is Zi Huang. I am a linguist and mainly work in formal semantics and natural language ontology. Since September 2024, I work as a university assistant (postdoc) at Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Graz. Here is a recent CV.

I graduated with a PhD degree in linguistics at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. My thesis Verbal gerunds in English: a case study in natural language ontology and referentiality was developed under the supervision of Louise McNally and defended in March 2024. My thesis focuses on the interpretation of two verbal gerund nominalizations in English (Zi's writing her thesis vs Zi writing her thesis) based on corpus data. During my studies at UPF, I was a member of GLiF, or Grup de Lingüística Formal ("Formal Linguistics Research Group" in Catalan).

My first name can be a bit tricky to pronounce, but a dzzzz noise will do the job. I have many passions. One of them is languages: I am a native speaker of Mandarin and Wu Chinese, I speak English, Spanish and Catalan and I'm currently learning German. I am a proud cross-stitcher: please check out my stitching portfolio!

I code in Python and love to learn new skills. This website demonstrates my current level of html, css and JavaScript programming, which is steadily improving. ChatGPT has helped a lot in the creation of this site, but I have turned to more professional courses. Check out my learning progress from the changelog!

If you wish to contact me, please send an email to [first-name].[last-name]@uni-graz.at.