My Journey

Cognitive Science & Neural Networks

Working experience:

2016 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Emmanuel College

2010 - 2016: Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Emmanuel College

2009 - 2010: Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Colgate University.

2008 - 2009: Visiting Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Richmond.

2004 - 2008: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive Science Lab, Psychology Department, University of Richmond.

Education:

2003: Ph.D. Department of Physics, Nankai University (Mentor: Professor Tianlun Chen).

1998: B.S. Department of Physics, Nankai University in Tianjin, China

Honors and Awards:

August, 2007: Best Computational Modeling Prize in Language, the 29th Annual meeting of Cognitive Science Society.

2004 - 2008: Post-doctoral Research Fellowship (NSF).

Professional Memberships:

Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

International Neural Network Society (INNS)

Professional Services:

Consultant:

For National Science Foundation Grant to Ping Li at Penn State (#BCS-1057855):

“Collaborative Research: Cross-Language Lexical Interaction”

Reviewer (Grants):

Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), for the following programs:

Perception, Action, and Cognition Program (2008) Linguistics Program (2007)

Reviewer (Ad-hoc basis):

Journals: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; Behavior Research Methods; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine;

Connection Science; Cognitive Neurodynamics; Linguistics:An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences

Conferences: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2006 - 2009)

Reviewer (Books):

Wagner, W. (2010). Using IBM SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods, (3e), Sage Publications.

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