Dr Hang Dong

Hi, I am Hang (pronunciation: name Hang on YouTube). I am a Lecturer in Computer Science. I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh, working on EPSRC and Health Data Research UK projects. I have a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool, working on knowledge discovery from text data. 

My research interests include (with open access links to previous work):

• Machine learning for data and knowledge: using machine learning and especially, deep learning, for information extraction, entity linking, classification, and ontology enrichment from texts and user-generated data. These tasks transform unstructured data into a structured form.
• Language Models and structured knowledge: exploring ways to integrate Language Models and knowledge graphs, for example, ontologies or domain-specific concepts and relations.
• Healthcare and climate AI applications: Natural Language Processing, multimodal learning, with key applications in automated clinical coding, disease phenotyping, and climate services, by integrating data, text, and images.

Perspective PhD students: I am looking for a PhD student on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graphs, which can be related to healthcare and climate applications. For example, a project can be “AI scientist for understanding dementia modifiable risk factors”, using multimodal, literature and tabular data. Welcome applications from any part of the world.

• If you are Chinese, this can be based on a China Scholarship Council (CSC) Exeter Scholarship to start from September 2026 (with application by December 2025). For more information on CSC, see the links. Studentships Advert: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=5727. CSC website: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/csc-scholarships/. Contact me if you are interested in applying for CSC for this project.