XU Yongming is currently a professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in the School of Humanities, Zhejiang University (ZJU). He holds the title of Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program awarded by the Ministry of Education and serves as Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at ZJU’s College of Humanities. He also concurrently serves as the director of the “Academic Map Publishing Platform,” the “Smart Classics Platform,” and the “Cloud Siku Intelligent Q&A System,”the vice president of the Ming Dynasty Literature Society (preparatory), a council member of the China Popular Literature Society, the vice president of the Professional Committee on Intelligent Development and Utilization of Ancient Books of the China Ancient Books Protection Association, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Harvard University CBDB database, and an editorial board member of the journals  Digital Humanities  and  Journal of Digital Humanities Research .

His main research areas include literature of Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynastyand digital humanities. He has authored, compiled, and edited more than 20 works, including A Study of Writers from Wuzhou from the Yuan to Early Ming , Chronological Biography of Song Lian , and Textual Research and Transmission of Ancient Chinese Drama . He has led several major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, including A Complete Bibliography of Anthologies from Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty  (later-stage project), A Complete Bibliography of Existing Ancient Works from Zhejiang  (key project), and Big Data and Platform Construction for Ming Dynasty Literature  (major project).