Dr. Huilian Sophie Qiu is a Junior Group Leader at Goettingen University NET Group.
Before moving to Germany, she was aResearch Assistant Professor at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) at Northwestern University. Her work spans natural language processing, computational social science, and software engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Societal Computing from Carnegie Mellon University and previously studied computer science and East Asian studies at Princeton University and Brown University. Grounded in empirical data, her research examines how scientific language shapes funding outcomes, open-source collaboration, and technological innovation. Her work has been published in leading journals such as PNAS and JAMA Network Open, and she is a recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award at the ICSE conference.
