Prof. LI Jixing (李吉星)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation
- Assistant Professor, Affiliate, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Affiliate) at City University Hong Kong. My research applies computational models to understand how the human brain represents and computes semantic and syntactic information during language comprehension.
Research Interests/Areas
Computational neurolinguistics,
Encoding and decoding of speech in the brain,
Neural representation of syntax and semantics
Qualifications/Experiences
2018 – 2022 Post-doctoral Fellow, New York University Abu Dhabi
Supervisor: Liina Pylkkänen
2013 – 2019 Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University
Supervisor: John Hale
2016 – 2018 Graduate Minor, Cognitive Science, Cornell University
2011 – 2012 M.Sc., Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
2009 – 2010 M.A., Linguistics, University College London
2005 – 2009 B.A., English Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University
2006 – 2009 Double B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University
Teaching
LT2206 Fundamentals of Statistics for Language Sciences
LT3233 Computational Linguistics
LT4256 Topics in Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics
LT5903 Language and Its Applications
LT5406 Psycholinguistics
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