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Yuqi Chen 陈钰琪
PhD, Peking University
Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong
Yuqi Chen is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong. She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Peking University, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
She is actively engaged in the fields of Quantitative History and Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on integrating AI and computational methods with humanities research, aiming to uncover new insights through innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
Her research interests currently focus on three main areas:
Quantitative History and Archaeology – Utilizing quantitative methods, such as spatial analysis, time series analysis, and social network analysis, and developing open-source computational tools, to advance archaeological and historical research, particularly in the Early China period.
AI for the Humanities – Leveraging artificial intelligence to digitize and interpret low-resource historical materials, including oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, and premodern Chinese texts.
Historical Psychology – Using AI-driven methods to investigate human sentiment and trace the long-term evolution of cultural psychology.
She serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals in humanities and social sciences, including Nature Human Behaviour, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, Applied Geography, among others. She is also a consulting editor for Human Nature. Her work has been published in journals including International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, as well as at conferences such as the Digital Humanities (DH) Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), as well as other leading venues.
CONTACT
Address: Room 219, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
Email: chenyuqi@hku.hk
Tel: (852) 3917-3118
Website: https://yukiyuqichen.github.io/
Peer-reviewed papers
Chen, Y., Shang, W., Wang, H., Zhang, S., & and Bol P. K. (2025). Geocoding the Past World: Unearthing Coordinates of Early China from Texts Using Generative AI. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2025.2491711
Chen, Y., Li, S., Li, Y., & Atari, M. (2024). Surveying the Dead Minds: Historical-Psychological Text Analysis with Contextualized Construct Representation (CCR) for Classical Chinese. In Y. Al-Onaizan, M. Bansal, & Y.-N. Chen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 2597–2615). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.151
Chen, Y., Shang, W., & Chen, S. (2024). Pure Conversation with AI: Building Generative Agents for Reenacting Debates in History. The Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13761079
Hong, Z., & Chen, Y. (2024). Persuading the Emperors: A Quantitative Historical Analysis of Political Rhetoric in Traditional China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 840. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03164-5
Wei, T., & Chen, Y. (2023). A Methodology for Building Domain Ontology of Cultural Heritage. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad045
Shang, W., Chen, S., Chen, Y., & Diesner, J. (2023). Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.). In Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2023 (pp. 263–273). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper2567.pdf
Wei, T., & Chen, Y. (2023). A Ding Ontology of Chinese Bronze. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3609484
Chen, Y. & Wang, L. (2022). The Great Transformation of the Clan System in Early China: A Social Network Analysis of Clan-sign Inscriptions from 1300 BC to 900 BC. In The Book of Abstracts of Digital Humanities 2022 (pp. 440–444). https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf#page=440
Preprints
Chen, Y., Atari, M., Slingerland, E., Hong, Z., Fu, X., Wang, H., Schulz, J., Bol, P.K., & Henrich, J. (2025). Psychological Change and Kinship Intensity in China over Two Millennia. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/27u94_v1
Chen, Y., Li, Y., Zhou, K. Z., Fu, X., Liu, L., Bao, S., Sui, D., & Zhang, L. (2024). Global Public Sentiment on Decentralized Finance: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Geo-tagged Tweets from 150 Countries. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00843. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00843
Dillion, D., Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Watts, J., Zhao, C., Baral, S., … & Jackson, J. C. (2024). Prejudice Tied to State Centralization in Historical Societies. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zxuth
Chen, Y. Bridging the Gap: Artificial Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Humanities Research [跨越鸿沟：人工智能与跨学科的人文研究]. DeepSeek AI4RUC Lecture Series, Renming University of China. Jun 27, 2025.
Chen, Y. AI for the Humanities [人工智能在人文研究中的應用]. “Narratives and AI in Quantitative History: A Mandarin Workshop”, The University of Hong Kong. May 20, 2025.
Chen, Y. Historical Minds and Artificial Intelligence: How AI Helps Rediscover Ancient Minds. Frontiers in Chinese Studies Series, Bucknell University. Sep 18, 2024.
Chen, Y. Surveying the Dead Minds: Historical Text Analysis Unveiling Psychological Dynamics Within Chinese Culture Across Two Millennia [测量已逝去的心灵：历史文本分析揭示两千年中国文化心理演变]. “Fu Xuancong Academic Lecture” Series, Tsinghua University. Jun 12, 2024.
Chen, Y. Geocoding the Past World: Unearthing Coordinates of Early China from Texts Using Large Language Models. Chinese Historical Databases: Sources, Methods, Prospects, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. January 11, 2024.
Chen, Y. “Pure Conversation”with AI: Building Generative Agents for Humanities Studies. The 4th Tsinghua International Forum on Digital Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tsinghua University. December 8, 2023.
Chen, Y. From Question to Methodology: Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing [从问题到方法：数字人文与人文计算]. Breaking Boundaries in the Age of Technology: Defining New Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, The 8th Weiming Roundtable, Peking University. November 5, 2023.
Chen, Y. Scholar Presentations: China Biographical Database Project (CBDB). Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. October 7, 2023.
Chen, Y. The Hierarchical Structure of the Marriage Network of Noble Lineages in the Zhou Dynasty. Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022 (BD 2022) Workshop, co-located with the Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022). July 25, 2022.
Aug 26, 2025 历史与AI的距离｜追溯两千年中国文化心理演进
Apr 02, 2024 用AI大模型感知已逝去的心灵
