Profile
Project Title: Human–Nonhuman Relations and Gender in Science Fiction.
Supervisors: Professor Ruth Ahnert, Dr Sam Halliday and Dr Haim Dubossarsky.
Previous qualifications:
MDs Data Science (Digital Humanities), Durham University.
Research
Research Interests:
Computational literary studies,
Digital humanities,
Language models in literary studies.
Publications
Liu, Y., Dubossarsky, H., & Ahnert, R. (2026). Crossing the Gender Binary: Modelling Gendered Reference in Science Fiction and General Fiction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.19028. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.19028
Bryson, K., Kadlubsky, A., Liu, Y., Richardson, K., & Sergeeva, A. (2026). SEEing Together: Synthetic Presence and Ethics in AI/XR. In 2026 18th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) (pp. 1–4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX69967.2026.11618316
Liu, Y., Dubossarsky, H., & Ahnert, R. (2025). Estranged Predictions: Measuring Semantic Category Disruption with Masked Language Modelling. In Computational Humanities Research 2025, Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 3, 669–685. https://doi.org/10.63744/GUArdaU1Y92u
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