ZhengFei Ren

Zhengfei is a first-year PhD student at the School of Computing in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Dublin City University, where he is supervised by Dr. Annalina Caputo. His research is in the field of Natural Language Processing which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that is concerned with tools and techniques to automatically explore diachronic change in human languages from historical documents. Zhengfei holds an MSc. in University College Cork, Ireland, where his thesis was focused on multi-dimensional sentiment analysis based on daily languages. Prior to joining the CRT-AI funded PhD programme, Zhengfei worked as a project team member on the 21st Extracurricular Academic Exchange Project held by Sochoow University. The project aimed to develop an AI-based digital recognition system to facilitate industrial production. In his spare time Zhengfei enjoys playing basketball, jogging and playing guitar. 

Supervisor: Dr. Annalina Caputo.