Huilian Sophie Qiu is an Assistant Professor in the Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Thrust of the Society Hub at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). She previously served as a Junior Group Leader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Göttingen and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University. Her research spans natural language processing, computational social science, and software engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Computational Sociology from Carnegie Mellon University and studied at Princeton University and Brown University for her master’s and undergraduate degrees, respectively, across the fields of computer science and East Asian studies. Grounded in empirical data, her research investigates how scientific language shapes research funding, open-source collaboration, and technological innovation. Her work has appeared in leading international journals including PNAS and JAMA Network Open. She has received an ICSE Distinguished Paper Award and a Journal of Social Computing Outstanding Reviewer Award.

邱慧莲（Huilian Sophie Qiu），香港科技大学（广州）社会枢纽创新创业与政策学域助理教授，曾担任哥廷根大学计算机系初级团队领导、西北大学计算机系助理教授。研究方向涵盖自然语言处理、计算社会科学与软件工程。她于卡内基梅隆大学获得计算社会学博士学位，硕士与本科阶段分别就读于普林斯顿大学与布朗大学，横跨计算机科学与东亚研究领域。她的研究以实证数据为基础，聚焦科学语言如何影响科研资助、开源协作与技术创新，其成果发表于 PNAS、JAMA Network Open 等国际顶级期刊，曾获 ICSE 会议杰出论文奖、Journal of Social Computing 杰出审稿人奖。