Borui Zhang

Borui Zhang is an NLP specialist at George A. Smathers Libraries, specializing in named entity recognition (NER), LLM fine-tuning for downstream tasks, information retrieval, data structuring, and feature engineering. Her work focuses on leveraging AI to enhance library services, research workflows, and interdisciplinary applications, aiming to develop systems that better understand and model both human language and domain-specific textual data.

With expertise in machine learning, Borui applies NLP techniques to analyze domain-specific data, including medical research, agriculture, biology, and digital collections, as well as low-resource languages such as Nepal Bhasa and Cantonese. Her goal is to create adaptable NLP systems that enhance research productivity, facilitate knowledge discovery, and support data-driven decision-making across disciplines.