I am Zi Huang. I recently graduated with a PhD degree in linguistics at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. I am a member of GLiF, or Grup de Lingüística Formal ("Formal Linguistics Research Group" in Catalan). I recently finished my PhD thesis Verbal gerunds in English: a case study in natural language ontology and referentiality under the supervision of Louise McNally and defended in March 2024. I work in formal semantics and natural language ontology, and my thesis focuses on the interpretation of two verbal gerund nominalizations in English (Zi's writing her thesis vs Zi writing her thesis) with corpus data. I am actively looking for a job right now. Here is my CV.
My first name can be a bit tricky to pronounce, but a dzzzz noise will do the job. One of my biggest passions is solving puzzles, and this leads me into constantly learning new languages. I am a native speaker of Mandarin and Wu Chinese, work in English, Spanish and Catalan, and read some German, French, Italian and Esperanto for fun. 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]@upf.edu.