Nichimin Lu received her M.A. in Regional Studies—East Asia from Harvard University and was a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, focusing on pre-modern Chinese literature. She has been teaching Chinese at Harvard since 2019 and has taught courses at various levels, from beginning to pre-advanced, as well as several content-based bridge courses. She served as an assistant instructor for CHIN S-130C at HTA in 2025. She has broad interests in language and literature, language learning, and linguistics. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing badminton, and birdwatching.