Workshops & Presentations

Title	Date	format	Description	materials
From Unstructured to Structured Data	Jan 17, 2025	In-person Workshop	This was a workshop hosted at University Library of Toronto on 17 January 2025. It introduces the basic concepts of This workshop is designed for East Asian Studies graduate students and faculty interested in integrating digital tools and methods into their learning and research processes. Participants will gain practical skills in utilizing AI-assisted tools for East Asian Studies research. Students, faculty, and researchers in the humanities more broadly may also find the workshop useful.
Practical GenAI for East Asian Libraries	Jan 16, 2025	In-person Workshop	This was a workshop hosted at University Library of Toronto on 16 January 2025. It introduced the basic concepts of generative AI and provides practical examples of how to use generative AI in East Asian library context.
Adopting GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies	Sep 20, 2024	In-person Workshop	This was the first workshop of the GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies series at Harvard University. The series was a semester long activity with three topics and nine sessions hosted by the Digital China Initiative. I organized and instructed all workshops of the series.	Teaching material (Notion)
Crafting Effective Inquiries in ChatGPT and More!: A Hands-on Workshop for East Asian Libraries	Mar 14, 2024	In-person Workshop	This was a hands-on workshop for East Asian librarians at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Council on East Asian Libraries.	Teaching material (Notion)
Navigating the Uncharted Waters: AI and East Asian Studies	Mar 13, 2024	Keynote speech	This was the keynote speech for the 2024 Annual Meeting of Council on East Asian Libraries.
Generative AI for Chinese Studies Workshop (Introductory)	Feb 23, 2024	In-person Workshop	This was a introductory workshop for the Chinese Studies community at Harvard University.	Teaching materials (Notion)
GenAI for East Asian Studies	Apr 23, 2023	In-person Workshop	The first GenAI workshop for East Asian Studies at Harvard. I co-organized and co-instructed this workshop with Hongsu Wang, the senior manager of CBDB. The material for this workshop is in a GitHub repository we created.	GitHub Repository
The Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward	Mar 14, 2023	In-person Conference	An international conference organized by Professor Peter Bol and me with generous support from the East Asia-related centers and departments at Harvard, and the Harvard-Yenching Libraries. The conference was held in March 2023 at Harvard University.	<a href=“https://fccs-dci.github.io/tott-projects/ target=”_blank”>Program and introduction of projects at the conference
The Digital China Summer Workshop	Jun 6, 2022	In-person Workshop	A two-week workshop on methods of digital scholarship from June 6 to June 17 2022 held at Harvard University. I co-organized and co-instructed this workshop with Hongsu Wang, the senior manager of CBDB.