I am a graduate student in Sheng He's and Daniel Kersten's labs at the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I also work with Nilli Lavie at University College London (UCL). (To see my academic genealogy, try Neurotree).
I am broadly interested in how we interpret sensory (especially visual) inputs from behavioral, neural, and computational perspectives. Interpretation is a dynamic process continuously shaped by context and prior experience. It is this updating process from priors and context that makes visual processing adaptive and unique, enabling subsequent processes such as memory and learning. Some questions I am asking are 1) how can we generate percepts (e.g. features, objects, face, and value) from retinal information? 2) under the constraints of capacity limits, how do we select and process information according to inputs and goals? 3) how can interpretations be shaped by experience (e.g. learning and culturization)?
Although a lot of phenomena are
studied separately, to gain a better understanding of the mind and the brain,
my research aims to blur the borders between vision, cognition, and
emotion. Towards this, I emphasize both theoretical formalization and
experimental observations.