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Assistant Professor at Aberdeen
Lecturer at Heidelberg
Email: wei.zhao@abdn.ac.uk
Welcome!
I am leading the WeNLP4Science Research Group at the University of Aberdeen, and an Invited Lecturer in Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University. Our research group has broad interests in NLP/LLMs and Machine Learning (e.g., evaluation, cross-temporal NLP and geometric ML), and we recently blend our expertise into LLMs for Science, with a focus on post-training, evaluation and applications of LLMs in scientific and industrial domains.
Previously, I was an Invited Postdoc at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Heidelberg University, working on the Geometry and Representation Learning. In December 2022, I earned my Ph.D. in NLP from the AIPHES Training Group at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Recent News
08/2025: Two papers about tokenization for temporal reasoning and evaluation of LLMs accepted at EMNLP
05/2025: Our workshop on Towards Human-LLM Collaboration for Ethical and Responsible Science Production will be held at IJCNLP-AACL
05/2025: Our workshop on LLMs for Cross-Temporal Research will be held at COLM
04/2025: Recipient of Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL
04/2025: Recipient of Computing Grant from Google
03/2025: Recipient of Sponsorship Funding from Artificial Intelligence Journal
02/2025: Recipient of Research Catalyst Funding from the University of Aberdeen
01/2025: A paper about evaluation of LLMs accepted at NAACL
01/2025: Recipient of Computing Credits from OpenAI
12/2024: A paper nominated by ARR Area Chair for Best Paper Award
12/2024: Two papers about LLMs for human annotation accepted at the CoMeDi Workshop, co-located with COLING
08/2024: Recipient of Research Collaboration Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh
07/2024: A paper about LLMs for lexicography accepted at the LLM-LEX Workshop, co-located with EURALEX
07/2024: Recipient of Computing Credits from Google
06/2024: Three papers about cross-temporal research accepted at the LChange Workshop, co-located with ACL
04/2024: A paper about graph embedding accepted at TMLR
02/2024: A paper about evaluation of LLMs accepted at JMLR
01/2024: A paper about cross-temporal research accepted at EACL
01/2024: Joined the University of Aberdeen
Selected Publications
How Good Are LLMs for Literary Translation, Really? Literary Translation Evaluation with Humans and LLMs - Ran Zhang, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger, NAACL 2025, Outstanding Paper Award
Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation - Steffen Eger, Yong Cao, Jennifer D'Souza, Andreas Geiger, Christian Greisinger, Stephanie Gross, Yufang Hou, Brigitte Krenn, Anne Lauscher, Yizhi Li, Chenghua Lin, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Wei Zhao, Tristan Miller, preprint, 02/2025
WeNLP4Science Research Group
PhD Researchers
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
University of Mannheim
MSC/BSC Thesis Students
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
Teaching
CS4051: Natural Language Processing (2024-2025) at Aberdeen
CS5063: Evaluation of AI Systems (2024-2026) at Aberdeen
CS551N: Introduction to Programming (2024-2026) at Aberdeen
CS551P: Advanced Programming (2024-2025) at Aberdeen
PS/HS: Diachronic Language Models (2023-2025) at Heidelberg
PS/HS: Cross-Temporal NLP (2025-2026) at Heidelberg
Open Positions
We currently have no job vacancies.Media
10/2024: Large Language Models No Match for Humans in Literary Translation, Slator
05/2025: QA-Based Evaluation Takes on Literary AI Translation, Slator