Mingyu Sun

Mingyu is our Senior Manager of Tutor and Content Development. She is responsible for setting the strategy for the content used in PandaTree sessions, and for assessing and coaching tutors. In addition to her work with PandaTree, Mingyu is the Director of the Language Resource Center (LRC) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Previously she has worked as a Technology Specialist in the Language and Culture Learning Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago and as a Research Member at the Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Discovery Lab at Michigan State University.

Mingyu was raised in Hefei, China and attended HuaZhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, graduating with Honors in the top 1% of her class. She holds a B.A. in Foreign Languages from HUST, a Masters in Corpus Linguistics from HUST and both a Masters in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Michigan State University.

Mingyu is a regular presenter at national and international language conferences, including at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA). Presentation topics have included technology tools for language classrooms, designing online Chinese programs, and developing multimedia materials that students enjoy. Mingyu has published numerous articles and papers, and is the recipient of a dozen grants and awards for her academic work, including a grant to research a Student-Centered Smart Classroom for Languages.