Dr. Shaoxiong Ji is an Assistant Professor at the University of Turku and a Principal Investigator at the ELLIS Institute Finland. He received his Ph.D. from Aalto University, after which he was a postdoctoral researcher in high-performance language technology at the University of Helsinki. Prior to his current roles, he worked as an independent research group leader at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Throughout his academic career, he was a visiting researcher at some international institutions, such as the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the University of Queensland (UQ), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the University of Munich (LMU), Shanghai AI Lab, and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).