Gao Tianjun, lecturer in linguistics, master's supervisor. He received his BA and MA from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, PhD from Xiamen University. He joined the faculty at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2019.

Gao's main research interests lie at the evolutionary history of Chinese minority languages, especially Sino-Tibetan languages. In addition, he pays special attention to the computer-assisted methods of historical linguistic. His first book, Study on Phylogenetic Network in Tibeto-Burman Languages, focuses on the evolutionary model of Tibeto-Burman languages. In this book he successfully reconstructed the evolutionary network of Tibeto-Burman language family based on the cognates identified by computer assisted methods. This study provides a valuable reference for the evolution model of Tibeto-Burman languages.

He is currently the director of a research project of The National Social Science Fund of China and another project of Research Foundation from Ministry of Education of China. He is also a part-time editor of the academic journal Studies in Language and Linguistics.

Research Areas

●Historical Linguistics

●Evolutionary Linguistics

●Minority languages in China

Publications

●2023. Study on Phylogenetic Network in Tibeto-Burman Languages(藏缅语演化网络研究). Shanghai Guji Chubanshe(上海古籍出版社).

●2020. Reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic network on Tibeto-Burman languages in China. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 48(1): 257-293

●2019. Computer Assisted Regular Sound Correspondences and Cognates Identification on Tibeto-Berman Languages(计算机辅助藏缅语语音对应规律和关系词识别). Studies in Language and Linguistics(语言研究). (1):120-126

Courses Recently Taught

●Chinese Dialects

●Computer Assisted Education

●Chinese Elements Teaching

●Computer-Assisted Language Research