Teaching Experience
Since 2009, I have been engaged in teaching undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students at universities in China and the United States. My specific contributions include: 1) Designing, planning, and fully participating in the undergraduate curriculum, teaching scheme, and instructional activities of the university-level “Art, Culture, and Creativity” second major program at Nanjing University; 2) Leading and participating in the “Digital Humanities” series of courses at Nanjing University (including general electives, MOOCs, and workshops); 3) Leading the development of academic master’s programs in Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and in Art Communication at Nanjing University, including the design of curricula, teaching teams, and instructional plans. In addition, I have extensive experience in international collaboration and overseas teaching, having led and participated in joint teaching programs with institutions in the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan, China.
At the undergraduate level over the past five years, I have served as the principal coordinator of the “Art and Cultural Creativity” minor program, training over 80 students. I have taught five general education, elective, laboratory, and innovation/entrepreneurship courses, reaching a total of 950 students, with 620 class hours (averaging 116 hours per year). I have also offered one MOOC and one summer elective course. The MOOC has been offered six times, with a total enrollment of 3,068 students. The “Virtual Simulation Experiment for Art Exhibition Preview and Evaluation,” part of the “Art Curatorial Workshop,” has been recognized as a national first-class virtual simulation experimental course. The MOOC “Innovative Thinking and Methods in Digital Humanities” is the first of its kind in China, with a companion textbook to be published by Higher Education Press.
At the graduate level, since 2009 I have supervised academic master’s students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Nanjing University, and have led the development of the “Art Communication” master’s program and its talent team at Nanjing University. I have supervised a total of 17 master’s students, 15 of whom have graduated, with 2 currently enrolled. I have taught courses including Digital Humanities and Digital Art History, Art and Technology, Art Communication (co-taught), and Advanced Issues in Art Culture Studies (co-taught), totaling 196 class hours (averaging 32 hours per year).
Courses Taught
Media Humanities Practice (12 hours), Autumn Course, 2025;
Media Humanities (32 hours), Autumn Course, 2020, 2022, 2024; Spring Course, 2021, 2023;
Global Cultural and Creative Industries: Cases and Innovation Dynamics (32 hours), Spring Course, 2020, 2021; Autumn Course, 2022;
Innovative Thinking and Methods in Digital Humanities (co-taught, 10 hours), Spring Course, 2020, 2021, 2023; Autumn Course, 2024;
Art Curatorial Workshop (32 hours), Autumn Course, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; Spring Course, 2021, 2022, 2023;
Advanced Issues in Art and Technology (32 hours), Spring Course, 2021;
Digital Museum and AI Curation Practice (32 hours), Summer Course, 2024;
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities and the Arts (24 hours), Autumn Course, 2024;
Innovative Thinking and Methods in Digital Humanities(co-taught, 32 hours), Spring Course, 2022, 2023, 2024; Autumn Course, 2022, 2023, 2024;
Digital Humanities and Digital Art History (32 hours), Autumn Course, 2024;
Art and Technology (32 hours), Spring Course, 2020, 2021, 2023;
Art Communication (co-taught, 6 hours), Spring Course, 2021, 2023, 2024;
Advanced Issues in Art Culture Studies (co-taught, 6 hours), Spring Course, 2021, 2023, 2024;
Topics in Cross-Media Creativity, Spring Course, 2021;
Cultural Theory, Spring Course, 2020;
Urban Lab, Rice university, Spring Course, 2013 ;
Chinese language, Literature, and Culture,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Spring Course,2011,2012;
Cultural Studies,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Autumn Course, 2009-2011,2011-2012;
New Media Studies,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Autumn Course,2009-2010,2010-2011,2011-2012.
Supervised Student Awards
Graduate Student Awards (including teams with both graduate and undergraduate students)
Chen Jiayun, Chen Junzhou, Chen Yongkang: “Chinese Thinker Intelligent Agent · Ziyue” – Bronze Award, 2025 University Student “AI × Chinese Classics” Innovation Competition (Practice Track), Beijing Confucius Temple and Guozijian Museum, August 20, 2025. Co-supervised by Professor Chen Jing (School of Arts), Professor Wang Tao and Professor Qiu Weiyun (School of History, Nanjing University).
Chen Zhichao, Jiang Yunfang, Chen Jiayun, Xia Xue, Sun Suying, Xu Jingyi, Bao Yuyang, Chen Xi, Cai Yang: “Center of the World: Intelligent Atlas of Beijing’s Millennial Cultural Context” – Challenge Star Award, 19th “Challenge Cup” National University Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition (AI+ Special Track). Organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, All-China Students’ Federation, and Jiangsu Provincial Government, 2025.
Wang Dazhong, Liao Minyi, Zhu Wenqi, Cao Mengting, Zhu Tianyu, Fang Jiadi, Meng Shengkun: “Crowd-Wisdom Heritage: Digital Protection of Ancient Chinese Urban Cultural Context” – National Special Prize, “Challenge Cup” National University Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition (AI+ Challenge). Organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and Nanjing University, November 2025.
Jiang Yunfang, Chen Jing, Wang Youlin, Chen Zhichao, Wang Tianran, Wang Mingjun, Chen Xin, Xia Siqi, Guo Shicong, Pang Sirui: “Exploring Narrative Generation Pathways for Children’s Serious Games Based on Museum Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs” – Excellent Paper Award, 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, 2025.
Guo Shicong: “The ‘Multi-Layered Spatial Network’ of Jinling Scenic Paintings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties” (Master’s Thesis) – Third Wang Chaowen Art Studies Nomination Award, Chinese National Academy of Arts, 2024.
Mai Nuowen: Finalist, CCTV-6 “AI Image Competition,” 2024.
Liang Yixin, Wang Chun, Wang Jiajie, Li Mengyue, Zhao Xiaoxuan: “Jinling Memory: A Map Series of Nanjing’s Literary Place Names” – First Prize, Thematic Map Group, co-organized by China Geographic Society, China Surveying and Mapping Society, China Society of Natural Resources, China Geographic Information Industry Association, and the Cultural Mapping and Creative Engineering Technology Innovation Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, 2024.
Mai Nuowen: Excellence Award, AIGC Film Shorts Unit, Beijing International Film Festival, 2024.
Guo Shicong: “What Makes a Capital: Images of Nanjing in Ming Visual Culture” (Conference Paper) – Second Prize, Shanghai Graduate Academic Forum “Urban Cultural Confidence and Mutual Learning,” Academic Committee of Shanghai Graduate Academic Forum & Shanghai Normal University, 2023.
Mai Nuowen, Lei Hanyu, Chen Yuxi: “Posthuman: Uncertain Edges” (Digital Curatorial Project) – First Prize, 2nd Global University Student Virtual Curating Competition, Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2023.
Lin Wensi, Mai Nuowen, Zhu Mingjun, Li Mengqi: “Cyan: Song Charm in Color” (Digital Curatorial Project) – Second Prize, 2nd Song Rhyme Digital Curating Competition, China National Silk Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, and School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University, 2022.
Wensi Lin, Mengyue Li, Jisheng Wang, Mengqi Li, Jing Chen: “Digitizing and Recovering the Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Colour of Nanjing Brocade” – Best Paper Award, International Colour Association (AIC) Congress, 2021.
Lin Wensi, Chen Jing: “A Study of Colour Knowledge in the Classic of Mountains and Seas Using Digital Humanities Methods” (Paper) – Third Prize for Excellent Paper, 1st Chinese Digital Humanities Conference, Shanghai Library, 2020; also Second Prize for Excellent Paper, Jiangsu Provincial Graduate Academic Innovation Forum. (Paper published in Proceedings of the 2020 Digital Humanities Conference, Electronic Magazine Press, April 2021; and in Colour Studies, Vol. 1: Proceedings of the Youth Forum on Traditional Chinese Colour (2021), Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, November 2022.)
Li Mengqi, Xia Cuijuan, Chen Jing: “Constructing an Ontology for Traditional Craft Knowledge of Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Cases of Brocade, Embroidery, and New Year Prints” – First Prize for Excellent Paper, 3rd Chinese Digital Humanities Conference, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University & China Index Society, 2021.
Chen Jing, Ji Chunlin, Li Mengqi: “An Algorithm for Traditional Pattern Recognition Based on the Cascade R-CNN Detection Model” – Second Prize for Excellent Paper, 3rd Chinese Digital Humanities Conference, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University & China Index Society, 2021.
Undergraduate Student Awards
Wang Mingjun, Chen Xin, Liu Xiaoting, Wang Yihan, Guo Shicong: “Flowers and Faces Mirror Each Other – The Female World in Viewing Flowers after Washing Hands” – Best Ancient-to-Modern Interpretation Award, 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, “New Life in Collections · AI Creativity” Sub-forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, 2025.
Ding Tian, Wang Jiajie, Li Tianyi, Chen Jing: “Brand Gene Analysis and Application Platform under Chinese Aesthetics” (System Platform) – Outstanding Project Award and Outstanding Cultural Visualization Project Award, CDH2024 6th Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference, Organizing Committee of CDH2024 & School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, Shanghai University, 2024.
Wang Jiajie, Zheng Yuning, Gu Yixin, Xiao Xinyi, Chen Jing: “Measuring the Emotional Depth and Breadth of Tang Dynasty Poetic Geographic Imagery from a Digital Humanities Perspective” (Conference Paper) – Excellent Paper Award, CDH2023 5th Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference, Organizing Committee of CDH2023 & School of Information Management, Wuhan University, 2023.
Chen Zihong et al.: One Thousand and One Nights (Data Competition Project) – First Prize, 8th Shanghai Library Open Data Competition, Organizing Committee of Shanghai Library Open Data Competition, 2023.
Zheng Yuning, Gu Yixin: “A Study on Methods for Measuring Literary Geographic Emotion from a Digital Humanities Perspective” (Paper) – First Prize for Outstanding Paper, 26th Basic Disciplines Forum, Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University, 2023.
Supervised Student Publications
Graduate Student Publications
Guo Shicong: “A Study on the Visual Representation of Jinling Scenic Paintings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the Perspective of Spatial Humanities.” Fine Arts Observation, No. 3, 2026.
Guo Shicong: “Literati Excursions and Pictorial Transformation: Ming-Qing Painters of Jinling and Their Jinling Scenic Paintings from the Perspective of Social Networks.” The 19th National Conference on Art History in Higher Education, School of Arts and Humanities, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, December 2025.
Chen Jiayun, Zhao Haoyue, Chen Junzhou, Guo Shicong, Chen Yongkang, Chang Sunhaotian, Yu Hang, Qiu Weiyun, Wang Tao, Chen Jing, et al.: “Chinese Thinkers Dataset.” The 1st CCF Conference on Humanities and Artificial Intelligence, China Computer Federation, December 2025.
Chen Zhichao, Chen Jing, Chen Jiayun, Guo Shicong, Chen Xin, Wang Youlin, Xia Siqi, Wang Mingjun, Pang Sirui, Jiang Yunfang: “Agent-Driven Digital Curation: A Study on Human-Machine Collaborative Models and Practical Pathways.” 2025 Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2025), Joint Institute for Digital Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University; Digital Humanities Lab, Sun Yat-sen University; Sun Yat-sen University Library, November 2025.
Qiu Weiyun, Chen Jiayun, Chen Junzhou, Chen Yongkang, Chang Sunhaotian, Yu Hang, Wang Tao, Chen Jing: “From ‘Ziyue’ to ‘Living Thoughts’: The Impact of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Driven Confucius Large Language Model on the Transmission and Innovation of Intellectual History and the Evaluation Criteria for Humanities-Oriented Large Language Models.” 2025 Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2025), Joint Institute for Digital Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University; Digital Humanities Lab, Sun Yat-sen University; Sun Yat-sen University Library, November 2025.
Jiang Yunfang, Chen Jing, Wang Youlin, Chen Zhichao, Wang Tianran, Wang Mingjun, Chen Xin, Xia Siqi, Guo Shicong, Pang Sirui: “Exploring Narrative Generation Pathways for Children’s Serious Games Based on Museum Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs.” The 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, July 2025.
Wang Dazhong, Chen Jing, Lu Andong, Chen Gang, Cheng Yi, Yang Jinpei, Liao Minyi, Cao Mengting, Jiang Yunfang, Meng Shengkun, Guo Shicong, Sun Chang, Yang Chang, Shen Zhenzhen: “Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Ancient County-Level Cities: The Construction of the ‘Digital Atlas Platform of Chinese Ancient Cities.’” The 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, July 2025.
Chen Jiayun, Chen Junzhou, Chen Yongkang, Yu Hang, Chang Sunhaotian, Wang Tao, Qiu Weiyun, Chen Jing: “Ziyue: Chinese Thinker – Confucius.” The 4th East Asian Digital Humanities International Forum, Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center & Capital Library, July 2025.
Guo Shicong: “What Makes a Capital: Images of Nanjing in Ming Visual Culture.” Urban Cultural Studies, Vol. 2, 2024.
Guo Shicong: “The Formation and Transformation of Local Visual Archives: A Case Study of Jinling Scenic Paintings and Local Gazetteer Illustrations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.” Print Culture, No. 2, 2024.
Zhou Yingwen: “A Study on the Social Network Visualization of Photographic Artists Based on Gephi: A Case Study of Chinese Photography Exhibitions from the 1920s to the 1940s.” Journal of Art Theory and Art History, No. 1, 2022, pp. 52–62.
Lin Wensi: “Digitizing and Recovering the Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Colour of Nanjing Brocade.” Digital Humanities Conference 2022 (DH2022), Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) & The University of Tokyo, 2022.
Lin Wensi: “The Transformation of Knowledge Production of Nanjing Brocade Colors in the Digital Age” (Conference Paper). DADH2021: The 12th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, National Changhua University of Education & Taiwan Digital Humanities Association, 2021.
Lin Wensi: “An Exploration of Innovative Models for Intangible Cultural Heritage Display and Education in Museums” (Conference Paper). The 2nd Forum for Young Scholars in Museology, Shandong University, 2018.
Undergraduate Student Publications
Chen Zihong, Du Hanyue, Li Mengqi: “Museum Metadata Migration and Discovery Based on Named Entity Recognition” (Conference Presentation). International Symposium “New Life: When Digital Humanities Enters the Museum,” University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong & School of Arts, Nanjing University, 2024.
Gu Yixin, Wang Jiajie, Zheng Yuning, Chen Jing: “Odes and Laments: A Study of Emotional Imagery in Tang Dynasty Nanjing Poetry from a Digital Humanities Perspective.” In Sun Chao (ed.), Digital Humanities and the Study of Classical Chinese Literature, Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore, 2023.
Workshops and Lectures Organized
Workshops
1. “Digital Museum and AI Curation Practice” (2024)
July 7, 2024: Zhao Yinzhou, “Planning and Implementation of Museum Exhibitions: A Case Study of ‘Kindling Heritage: Zhang Taiyan and Suzhou’ Special Exhibition”
July 6, 2024: Wang Jisheng, “Chinese Costume Colors and Traditional Plant Dyeing”
July 4, 2024: Gao Jin, “Digital Teaching and Research at University College London”
July 3, 2024: Xia Cuijuan, “From Heterogeneous Metadata Schemes to Integrated Ontology Design”
July 2, 2024: Zhong Jianming, “Digitization of Historical Images”
July 2, 2024: Zhang Likun, “Digital + Museum”
2. VR Workshop Series (2021–2024)
November 2024: Kyle Li, “STYLY for Vision Pro Workshop”
December 2021: Kyle Li, “World Building”
3. “Wanlai Project” Artist-in-Residence Workshop Series (2021–2023)
May 2023: Sima Yuan, “The Logic of Sensation & An Improvised Multimedia Exhibition”
September 2022: Shi Qing, “Restless Image Writing”
November 2021: Deng Yuejun, “Flowing Perception”
4. Art Creativity + Information Design Workshop (2021)
October 31, 2021: Chen Hao, “Visual Exploration in the Information Age: The ‘Boundless’ Nature of Information Design”
5. Artificial Intelligence, Interaction, and Future Design Workshop Series (2018)
June 5–10, 2018: Li Guanru, “From Business to Art”
June 5–10, 2018: Liu Jiawei, “Feasible Future Design”
May 30 – June 10, 2018: Wei Wei, “Artificial Intelligence and the Experience Design of Intelligent Products”
May 28 – June 1, 2018: Kyle Li, “VR Interaction Design and Narrative”
6. “Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies” Workshop Series (2018–2019)
November 8, 2019: Chen Gang, Gao Jin, Jiang Wentao, Liu Wei, et al., “Defining Digital Humanities”
April 12–14, 2019: Fan I-chun, Liao Hsuan-ming, Bai Biling, “Spatial Humanities and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)”
December 7–9, 2018: Hung I-mei, Hu Chi-jui, “DocuSky Digital Humanities Research Platform Training”
November 7–8, 2018: Cheng Wen-hui, Yu Ching-hsiang, Chiu Wei-yun, “The Gene of Language and the Atlas of Culture”
7. “Avant-innovation” Workshop Series (2017)
December 8–11, 2017: Michael Erlhoff, Uta Brandes, “Design by Use”
December 12, 2017: Uta Brandes, “Design as Research – Research through Design – Research Methodologies and How to Study Them”
December 7, 2017: Michael Erlhoff, “Design Today and in the Near Future – Social and Economic Perspectives”
August 22–27, 2017: Maurice Benayoun, Wang Xiao, Qi Lin, Chen Jing, Wu Weiyi, “New Media · New Youth”
Lectures
1. “Art and Technology” Lecture Series (School of Arts, Nanjing University)
May 17, 2023: Sima Yuan, “Awareness and Evolution: Listening to the Code of Life”
November 11, 2022: Yin Yi, “What Does Music Really Mean to Us?”
September 9, 2022: Shi Qing, “Latour, Science Fiction, and the Voice of Nanjing”
December 10, 2021: Roger F. Malina, “Nothing New under the Sun: The Necessity of Transdisciplinary Thinking for Solving Complex Problems”
November 12, 2021: Deng Yuejun, “Light-Speaking Stone · Energy · Object”
October 14, 2021: Liu Xin, “From the Earth’s Surface to Outer Space: Lifting Off, Vertically Upward”
June 22, 2020: Wei Ying, “Bio Art and Pan-Bio Art: A Case Study of Quasi-Nature”
2. Cultural Creativity Lecture Series (2016–2021)
May 9, 2021: Roberto Donà, “Financial Practices for Cultural and Art Business”
April 27, 2021: Zhang Ning, “Non-Fiction Writing in China”
April 20, 2021: Tang Jianguang, “From the Paper Age to the Internet Age: The Past, Present, and Future of Media”
November 17, 2020: Ye Tieqiao, “How the ‘Pyramid’ Was Built: On Writing In-Depth Reports”
November 15, 2020: Luo Xiaoming, “Mutated Time: Speed and Experience in Science Fiction Writing”
November 13, 2020: Xu Hailong, “Elements of Creative Production and the Production Costs of Cultural Enterprises”
November 10, 2020: Zhang Yue, “In Wuhan: A Non-Fiction Documentary as Pandemic Documentation and Memory”
June 18, 2019: Cao Xiaojie, “Alternative Writing in the Age of Intelligent Technology: The Case of ‘Hackers’”
June 11, 2019: Cao Xun, “The Discourse of Subculture: Strategies and Logics of Online Textual Activism”
November 10, 2016: Michelle Ye, “Dissemination and Marketing of Luxury Brands in the Digital Era”
3. Lecture Series, Center for Digital Humanities and Innovation (2018–2019)
December 24, 2019: Mao Jianbo, “Current State and Trends of Digital Humanities: From Case Studies to Platform Construction”
November 5, 2019: Gao Jin, “Cultural Differences: Digital Humanities Research and Practice in the UK”
November 5, 2019: Edward Vanhoutte, “Publishing in the Digital Humanities: Lessons Learned from the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities”
November 5, 2019: Melissa Terras, “Creativity, Technology, and the Humanities: Building New Connections between Heritage Institutions and Researchers”
November 4, 2019: Jason Bailey, “Building the Future of Art Analytics”
April 29, 2019: Alex Gil, “The ‘Lean Tent’: A Rapid Model for Organizing Academic Research and Teaching Communication”
April 27, 2019: Roopika Risam, “The New Digital Worlds of Postcolonial Digital Humanities”
November 20, 2018: Pieter Francois, “The Promise and Challenges of Digital History”
May 24, 2018: Simon Mahony, “Cultural Diversity and Digital Humanities”
June 30, 2017: Hsiang Jieh, “Digital Humanities and Leishu (Chinese Encyclopedias)”
4. Digital Humanities Young Scholars Learning Camp (2018)
November 27, 2018: Li Bin, “Linguistic and Literary Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
November 9, 2018: Chen Jinju, “Semantic Analysis of Digital Images”
October 12, 2018: Xu Huimin, “Social Class and the Flow of Attention in Digital Media”
September 28, 2018: Xu Haiyang, “Urban Spatio-Temporal Big Data Analysis: A Case Study of Chengdu Taxi Trajectory Data”
September 1, 2018: Han Tianyao, “Data Analysis Workflows and Case Demonstrations: A Case Study of Douban Film Analysis”
5. “Craft Revival · Intangible Heritage” International Master Residency Lecture Series (2016–2017)
October 12, 2017: Wang Peiyi, “Yijian Fashion: Unpacking the Humanity behind Glamorous Attire”
September 14, 2016: Thomas Widdershoven, “Graphic Empowerment: The Power of Clear and Playful Graphics”
September 2, 2016: Yang Mingjie, “Why Do We Design?”
August 26, 2016: Kim Buck, “Meta Jewelry”
6. Other Lectures
October 15, 2024: Maurice Benayoun, “Art Escaping Gravity: From Abstraction to GEN AI, a Personal Journey”
May 9, 2020: Yena Young, “Plastique Fantastique”
April 25, 2020: Fra Biancoshock & Rolenzo, “Source Code Disease 2019”
May 20, 2019: Matteo Ravasio, “Food, Art, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in China and Italy”
April 19, 2019: Roberto Donà, “Financial Practices for Cultural and Art Business”
September 8, 2018: Chen Zenglu, “A Different ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum’”
December 18, 2017: Maurice Benayoun, “Recalculating… Are We Lost in the Future of Art?”
