Tong Zhao

Profile

Project Title: Emoji Usage in Chinese Text-based Online Counselling.

Supervisors: Dr Agnieszka Lyons and Professor Isabelle Mareschal.

Previous qualifications:

University  of Pittsburgh,  MA in Applied Linguistics (2017-2019)

National Chung Cheng University (2016)

Shandong Normal University (2013-2017)

Research

Research Interests:

Discourse Analysis,

Multimodal Communication,

Social Semiotics,

Pragmatics,

Sociolinguistics.

Publications

Qiu, H., Zhao, T., Li, A., Zhang, S., He, H. and Lan, Z., 2023, October. A benchmark for understanding dialogue safety in mental health support. In CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (pp. 1-13). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Ma, L., Zhao, T., Qiu, H. and Lan, Z., 2024. No General Code of Ethics for All: Ethical Considerations in Human-bot Psycho-counseling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14070.

Public Engagement

Research Assistant at Westlake University, Hangzhou,China (2021 – 2023) 

Data Analyst at Apple, Shanghai, China (2020 – 2021)

Data Analyst at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Enterprises, Pittsburgh , USA (2019-2020)