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Hi, I’m Dongyu Gong. I am currently a PhD student at Wu Tsai Institute and Department of Psychology, Yale University. My PhD advisor is Professor Anna Christina (Kia) Nobre. I was a PhD student at the University of Oxford with Kia, and I moved to Yale after Kia got her new position at Wu Tsai Institute.

I am interested in studying both human intelligence and machine intelligence, especially how intelligence emerges from biological systems and artificial systems. I believe neuroscience is an important force in driving the development of autonomous machine intelligence with human-level cognitive abilities.

My PhD research currently focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying human visual attention and memory, especially how they interact to allow flexible and adaptive human behavior. I use a combination of fMRI, EEG/MEG, human psychophysics, and computational modelling techniques in my research.

Before graduate school, I received my degree of Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University with highest honors. During my undergraduate years, I was supervised by Professor Pei Sun and Professor Nihong Chen at Tsinghua. In Summer 2019, I visited Whitney lab at UC Berkeley. In Winter 2019, I visited Professor Jan Theeuwes’s lab at VU Amsterdam. In Summer 2020, I worked with Professor Jeremy Wolfe, who leads the Visual Attention Lab at Harvard Medical School.

In my leisure time, I enjoy cooking, running, travelling, and hiking. I also love sci-fi, photography, and piano music.