ANDLAB-UM.COM - Key Persons
Haofei WU, is a graduate student majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience. She graduated with a B.S. in Applied Psychology from Zhengzhou University. Currently, she is interested in the neural basis of social cognition, especially the mechanisms of processing social decisions under the influence of others. She is trying to investigate it through a range of methods including fMRI and EEG.
Haoming is a second-year PhD student in the lab. Before joining the A.N.D lab, Haoming received his bachelor's degree at Southern University of Science and Technology. He is mainly interested in two specific topics. The first one is to investigate how the brain encoding the information about the direction of motion (forward & backward) by using intracranial electroencephalographic to recording and analyze the electrophysiological signal. The second is to investigate the neural machinery of the human brain for making safe, risky decisions.Haoming uses different kinds of methods in the research, which include EEG, sEEG, machine learning, and neural network.
Junyuan Zheng is a first-year Master student in the lab.He received his B.E. Software Engineering degree at Xiamen University. His research interests contain 1) Group Psychology, especially applying cognitive neuroscience to explore new group psychological field theory, including group bias, stereotypes combined with personality psychology. 2) Computational Neuroscience combined with machine learning and other technologies. 3) Social psychology and social neuroscience in the context of Virtual Reality(VR). 4) Cultural Neuroscience, Chinese specific psychological phenomena with neural mechanisms behind.
Keyu Hu, is currently a research assistant in the lab. She received a double B.Sc. (Psychology) degree from both Southwest University in Chongqing, China and the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Generally, her research interest includes 1) investigating the neural basis of social cognition and emotion using multiple methods, 2) human behavior in a social context like decision-making process and third-party punishment behavior.
Kun Chen is a second-year Ph.D. student in the lab. He graduated with a B.S.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is particularly interested in 1) The neural representation of concepts in the human brain & how does the representation shape human behavior. 2) Exploring social value representation using computational models that combine behavioral and neuroimaging data. 3) Developing brain-inspired natural language processing (NLP) models instead of purely statistical models to make machines understand the language as humans.
Luoyao is a second-year graduate student in the lab. She graduated with a B.A. in Applied Psychology, and now is a joint training student at Shenzhen University studying Cognitive Neuroscience. She is interested in the computational and neural mechanisms of social cognition, especially how social information affects decision making. She is currently involved in two projects, the first is how brain structure and functional connectivity of specific resting-state networks predict motivated lying in an information passing task, and the second is the integration of individual and social information for decision making under uncertain situations.
Qingyuan is a graduate student majors in cognitive neuroscience. She graduated with a B.S. in Physics from Lanzhou University and is currently a joint master student trained by Prof. Chao Liu from Beijing Normal University and Prof. Haiyan Wu from the University of Macau. She is interested in how people's perceptions of their partners' moral behavior might affect their cooperative behavior, as well as how the calculation of benefits and attitudes toward fairness influence cooperative behavior. She is now studying how oxytocin affects human's brain activity during face-perception tasks.
Runquan is a second-year undergraduate student, and a freshman in the lab, majoring in Psychology at the University of Macau. He joined the lab in August 2021. He expects to focus on human behavioral and neural responses in social scenarios. In particular, he is interested in behavioral and neural mechanism of human social interaction especially in human with anxiety, depression, and loneliness. His goal is to being a researcher so that he can help children and young adults struggling with mental health, especially those in vulnerable communities. Currently, (1) he is working on social navigation domains, and fMRI scanning, and (2) dealing with EEG data.
Shuhan Zhang is a first-year graduate student in the lab, majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience. She graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Southwest University. Currently, she is interested in the neural mechanism of social cognition and human social interaction. She tries to investigate how people interact with each other in different situations by using neuroscience methods.
Siying Li is a second-year joint PhD student in the lab, jointly trained by Prof. Xiaoqun Wang from Institute of Biophysics, CAS and Prof. Haiyan Wu from the University of Macau. She graduated with a B.A. in English from Zhengzhou University, and a M.A. degree in Linguistics from Chinese University of Hong Kong. With the linguistics background, and RA work experience in a cognitive neuroscience lab, she aims to work on a joint field between linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, using methods including fMRI, MEG, natural language processing (NLP).
Xinyi is a first-year Ph.D. student in the lab and she majors in EE. Her research interest lies in 1) integrator models of value-based decision making like DDM; 2) combining mouse tracking technique and computational modeling to better probe the dynamics during decision making. Currently she is using fMRI and computational modeling to investigate how people evaluate money, honesty and the consistency of lying and how information is encoded in brain.
Yan is an undergraduate student in the lab and he majors in psychology at the University of Macau. He is interested in two specific topics. One is exploratory behavior based on curiosity, and the other is how does motivation affect people's decision-making. He tries to explore the human brain by using kinds of equipment such as EEG and fMRI. He aims to be a great researcher in cognitive neuroscience.
Yeyang is a second-year graduate student in the lab. She recieved a B.E. degree in Public Administration, and now she is a joint training student at Shenzhen University studying Cognitive Neuroscience. She is interested in the internal and external motivations of curiosity and information-seeking behavior. Currently, her research is concerning two questions: 1) What drives non-instrumental curiosity and information-seeking behavior in social context, 2) Whether excessive game-playing undermines our value-based decision making and adaptive curiosity.
Zhaoning is a second-year PhD student in the lab. He received a B.E. degree in Information Security and an M.E. degree in Software Engineering, both from Sun Yat-Sen University. Enlightened by Heinrich Heine's famous quote, ‘Thought precedes action, as lighting does thunder', Zhaoning devoted himself to theoretical research after familiarizing with empirical research and application. Specifically, he aspires to make contributions to a "virtuous circle", in which shared insights into Artificial Intelligence and social psychology will advance the development of both fields. Eventually, Zhaoning will try to build a theory in this area by working his ass off, despite how naive the theory is and what difficulties he will meet. As the founder of modern social psychology, Kurt Lewin said, there is nothing more practical than a good theory.