HUANG Weizhong is currently the vice dean of the School of Chinese Classics director and professor of the Institute of Historical and Linguistic Studies of the Western Regions at Renmin University of China (RUC). He also concurrently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Historical and Linguistic Studies of Western Regions . His main research areas are Tibetan and Dunhuang Studies, with a particular focus on the history and the study of Sino-Tibetan cultural exchanges. He has served as the chief expert of a major project funded by the National Social Science Fund, titled  "Classification, Collation, and Research of Tibetan Documents from Dunhuang."  His representative work include A Study of Tibetan Vo w  Texts from the 8th–9th Centuries: Center ing  on Dunhuang Tibetan Vow   Texts .