CV
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Education
- PhD student, Neuroscience, Yale University, 2023 -
- PhD student, University of Oxford, 2021 - 2023 (Moved to Yale with my advisor in 2023)
- Bachelor of Science, Psychology (Minor in Computer Science), Tsinghua University, 2021 (graduated with highest honors, GPA ranked #1)
Research Experience
Research Intern, Summer 2020
- Visual Attention Lab at Harvard Medical School
- Supervisor: Professor Jeremy Wolfe
Visiting Researcher, Winter 2019
- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU Amsterdam
- Supervisor: Professor Jan Theeuwes
Research Assistant, Summer 2019
- Perception and Action Lab at University of California, Berkeley
- Supervisors: Dr. Alison Yamanashi Leib and Professor David Whitney
Teaching Experience
Tutor for Undergraduates, University of Oxford
- Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
- Tutored undergraduate students for Cognition course (Attention, Memory, and Learning)
Teaching Assistant at the Perception Science Program, UC Berkeley
- Summer 2019
- Tutored high school students in experimental design and MATLAB programming
Skills
Programming
- MATLAB
- Python
- R
- C
- HTML
Neuroimaging techniques
- fMRI data analysis with FSL
- EEG data analysis with MNE-Python
Publications
Presentations
The effect of distractor saliency on attentional capture
Poster presentation at 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada
Saliency-Dependent Distractor Suppression at One Specific Location and the Underlying Neural Mechanisms
Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2020 Virtual Meeting, Virtual
A Saliency-Specific and Dimension-Independent Mechanism of Distractor Suppression
Oral presentation at 2020 Beijing Area Universities (THU-PKU-BNU-RUC-UCAS) Joint Forum on Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Virtual
Spatial Heterogeneity for Attentional Capture Susceptibility
Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society (VSS) 2020 Virtual Meeting, Virtual
Guiding Perception by Memories of Different Timescales
Poster presentation at 2022 Oxford-MRC DTP Symposium, Oxford
Selecting and Prioritising Contents in Working and Long-term Memory Guides Recall and Perception
Poster presentation at 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Neurobiology of Cognition, Maine, United States
Focusing attention in long-term and working memory improves recall and guides perception
Poster at 2023 Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, United States
Dissociable neural processes during attentional selection within working memory and long-term memory
Talk at 2023 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., United States
Research Projects
Honors and Awards
- GSA Conference Travel Fellowship, Yale University, 2024
- AAAI-24 Student Scholarship and Volunteer Award, 2023
- New College Sporting and Cultural Award, University of Oxford, 2022
- New College Travel Grant for GRC Neurobiology of Cognition, University of Oxford, 2022
- Award Winner in 2022 Oxford-MRC DTP Supplementary Funding Competition, 2022
- Clarendon Scholar, University of Oxford, 2021
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship, University of Cambridge (declined the offer), 2021
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2021 (清华大学本科优秀毕业论文)
- Outstanding Graduate at Tsinghua University (top 1 in the class), 2021 （清华大学优秀毕业生）
- Outstanding Graduate among College Students in Beijing, 2021 （北京地区高等学校优秀毕业生）
Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2020 (清华大学特等奖学金)
- Presidential Award. Highest Honor for Undergraduates. Awarded to 10 undergraduates annually.
- China National Scholarship, 2020
- Scholarship for Excellence in Scientific Innovation, Tsinghua University, 2020
- First Prize in 38th Challenge Cup for Scientific Research, Tsinghua University, 2020
- “Academic Rising Star”in 2020 Undergraduates Psychology Forum, Peking University
- Selected to “Spark” Innovative Talent Cultivation Program （“星火班”）, Tsinghua University, 2019
- Excellent Oral Presentation Award in 2019 Tsinghua Student Research Conference
- Excellent Poster Presentation Award in 2019 Tsinghua Student Research Conference
- Second Prize in 2019 China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Beijing region)
- Scholarship for Excellence in Scientific Innovation, Tsinghua University, 2019
- Scholarship for All-Round Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2019
- Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2019
- China National Scholarship, 2018
Academic Service
Peer reviewer, ICML 2024 Workshop on LLMs and Cognition
Peer reviewer, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Journal by Elsevier
Peer reviewer, 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
Funding and Grants
Oxford-MRC DTP Supplementary Funding for High Cost Training
- Amount: £ 10505
- Clarendon Fund Scholarship + Medical Research Council Studentship + New College-Yeotown Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2021-2025
Future Scholar Grant for Undergraduate Research, Tsinghua University, 2020-2021
- Awarded to only 10 undergraduates at Tsinghua each year.
- Amount: ¥190,000 (over $28,000)
Grant for Undergraduate Overseas Studies, Tsinghua University, 2019
- Amount: ¥30,000 (over $4,500)
Research Grant for Student-Initiated Project, Tsinghua University, 2018-2019
- Amount: ¥60,000 (over $9,000)
Leadership
- Committee Member of UK Tsinghua Association
- January 2022 - August 2023
- Lecturer at "The Road to Academia" Studio, Tsinghua University
- May 2021 - June 2022
- President of Student Association for Science and Technology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
- May 2020 – May 2021
- Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Advisory Committee, Tsinghua University
- Mar 2020 – September 2020
- Coordinator of the Love for Our Alma Mater Volunteer Activity, Tsinghua University
- Dec 2017 – Apr 2018