Education

2012-2016 PhD in Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK (Supervisors: Prof. Martin Pickering, Dr. Martin Corley, Dr. Mante Nieuwland & Dr. Andrea Martin)
2011-2012 MA in Linguistic studies, University of Essex, UK (Supervisor: Dr. Philip Hofmeister)
2009-2011 BA in Chinese, East China Normal University, China

Academic positions

2022- Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2020-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2020 Visiting Researcher (6 months), University of Tokyo, Japan (Host: Prof. Yuki Hirose)
2018-2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (Host: Prof. Pia Knoeferle)
2016-2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, UK (PI: Prof. Matthew Husband)

Teaching experience

National University of Singapore

  • EL3206: Psycholinguistics (BA), 2023-24 Sem 1
  • ELC5206/EL6881: Advanced Psycholinguistics (MA), 2022-23 Sem 2, 2023-24 Sem 1
  • EL3210: Topics in the Psychology of Language (BA), 2022-23 Sem 2
  • EL3208: Bilingualism (BA), 2022-23 Sem 1
  • GET1036: The Logic of Language (BA, tutorial), 2021-22 Sem 2

    • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Analysing visual world eye-tracking data in R (MA), 2021
  • Individual differences in language processing (BA), 2020-2021
  • Mental representations (MA), 2020-2021

    • University of Tokyo

  • Introduction to Psycholinguistics (BA, MA), 2020

    • University of Oxford

  • Cognition and Language (BA, tutorial), 2016-2017

    • University of Edinburgh

  • Psychology 1 (BA, tutorial), 2013-2015
  • Psychology 2 (BA, tutorial), 2016

    • Grants

    2023-2024

    Humanities & Social Sciences Seed Fund (PI), Singapore. (S$39,763)

    "A visual-world eye-tracking corpus of bilingual spoken language comprehension"

    2022-2025

    Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1 (PI), Singapore. (S$165,025)

    "Enhancing prediction to facilitate non-native language comprehension"

    2018-2020

    Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (PI), Germany.

    "Processing orthographic word form during listening: An Investigation on the benefits and costs of language prediction and comprehension in different contexts"

    Editorial board

  • Associate Editor for Language Learning (2024-)
  • Consulting Editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2024-)
  • Review Editor for Frontiers in Language Sciences (2022-)
  • Handling Editor for Cognitive Processing (2021-)

    • Ad-hoc reviewing

    Journals

  • Acta Psychologica
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
  • Brain and Language
  • Brain Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Processing
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • International Journal of Bilingualism
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • The Journal of General Psychology
  • Languages
  • Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Language Learning
  • Language and Cognition
  • Language Acquisition
  • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Neurocase
  • Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science
  • PeerJ Life and Environment
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Psychophysiology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  • Plos One
  • Scientific Reports
  • Second Language Research
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition

    • Conferences

  • AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing) Conference (2018-)
  • AMLaP Asia Conference (2020-)
  • CogSci (Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) (2019-)
  • DETEC (Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational perspectives) Conference (2019-)
  • HSP Human Sentence Processing Conference (2018-)

    • Funding agency

  • Leverhulme Trust (UK)
  • National Science Foundation (USA)

    • Technical and research skills

  • ERP (BioSemi Active Two EEG system, Brain Vision Analyzer, MATLAB)
  • Eye-tracking (EyeLink1000/ Experiment Builder/ EyeLink Data Viewer)
  • Stimulus presentation (E-Prime, PCIbex, Qualtrics, Linger, DMDX, Presentation)
  • Audio processing (Praat, Audacity)
  • Statistics (R, SPSS)

    • Organisation

  • ESLP (Embodied and Situated Language Processing)/ AttLis (The Attentive Listener in the Visual World) Conference, 28-30 August 2019

    • Languages

  • Japanese (Native)
  • English (Advanced; CEFR level C1)
  • Chinese (Advanced; CEFR level C1)
  • German (Intermediate; CEFR level B2)