Summary
Kaijun Zhou is a second-year PhD student in Applied Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a decade of professional experience bridging research, teaching, and industry. He studies sociophonetics, computational phonetics, and speech technologies—applying ASR and speech synthesis tools to questions in Asian Englishes and language variation. As a current teaching assistant for undergraduate phonetics and linguistics courses and a former research assistant on sociolinguistics and second language acquisition projects, he combines hands-on pedagogy with empirical lab work. Kaijun has industry experience in localization and e-commerce strategy from a TikTok internship, bringing a pragmatic perspective to academic problems. He actively seeks collaborators and co-authors, signaling an outward-looking research agenda that blends technical methods with sociolinguistic theory. Notably, his profile reflects strong interdisciplinary fluency: high academic performance (4.0 PhD record) alongside applied project experience in global markets.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, English, Korean, Chinese, French