Academic Experience
Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 08/2020-08/2025
(supervisor: Dr. Ellen Lau)
I'm fortunate to have an extremely inter-disciplinary committee with expertise across linguistics, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy (Drs. Jeff Lidz, Alexander Williams, Weizhen Zane Xie, Yi Ting Huang).
🗓️ I just defended my dissertation, and am graduating Summer 2025.
Computational and Applied Linguistics B.A. & Psychology B.Sc., Peking University, China 09/2015-06/2020
(graduation thesis supervisors: Drs. Yan Bao, Weidong Zhan)
In case you are wondering what that mysterious "Computational and Applied Linguistics" is (rightfully so, as this major is rarely offered in Chinese universities), the full Chinese translation of my majors is: 中文系-应用语言学及心理与认知科学学院-心理学双学位.
Research Visit, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany and
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany 06/2024-08/2024
(hosts: Drs. Ernst Pöppel, Tilmann Sander)
Research Visit, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China 06/2023-06/2023
(host: Dr. Xing Tian)
Research Visit, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany 01/2019-02/2019
(host: Dr. Ernst Pöppel)
Workshop, “OPM-FLUX Toolkit on OPM-MEG data”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 06/2025-06/2025
Summer Course, “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language”, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA 07/2022-07/2022
(organizers: Drs. Simon Fisher, David Poeppel, Kate Watkins)
Summer School, Linguistic Institute 2019, UC Davis, CA, USA 06/2019-07/2019
Summer School, “Cognitive Neuroscience”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 08/2018-08/2018
Teaching
Teaching assistant, Biophysics of Language (instructor: Dr. Alex Chabot), University of Maryland Spring 2024
Instructor, Language and Vision, University of Maryland Fall 2023
📒 I designed and taught this undergraduate seminar on language and vision.
Teaching assistant, Grammars and Cognition (instructor: Dr. Ellen Lau), University of Maryland Fall 2022
Teaching assistant, Introduction to Linguistics (instructor: Dr. Margaret Antonisse), University of Maryland Fall 2021
Academic service
Discussion Group “Non-lexicalist Psycho-/Neuro-linguistics”, organizer (co-organized with Alex Krauska, Clara Cuonzo and London Dixon), during the “Winter Storm” workshop at Language Science Center, University of Maryland, Winter 2022
Journal Club “Action, Event and Knowledge” @University of Maryland, organizer, biweekly, Fall 2022
Discussion Group “Language and Oscillations” @University of Maryland, organizer (co-organized with Leslie Famularo), weekly, Winter 2021-2022 & Summer 2022
Maryland Linguistics Colloquium Committee, 02/2021- 05/2024
Ad-hoc reviewer for:
Cognitive Science, Cortex, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Psychological Review, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Trends in Cognitive Science