Cynthia S. Q. Siew

Before becoming PI of the LCL Cynthia got her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Kansas in the US and spent a couple of years post-docing at Warwick University in the UK. She investigates the structure of the mental lexicon with network science methods and is basically interested in how people do things with words. A ukulele-playing climber who probably spends too much time daydreaming about being in the climbing gym. Budding Linux enthusiast.

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Zehua Jiang (Rankie)

Zehua Jiang (Rankie) is a Psychology PhD student at Zhejiang University, specializing in Chinese distributional semantics. She’s currently a visiting the LCL lab, working on Singlish and MCI studies. Rankie is skilled in Python and R. Outside of work, she enjoys exercise, experimenting with LLMs, and doodling.

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Yumeng Li

Yumeng holds a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages and conducted psycholinguistic research during her master’s studies. She developed a strong interest in language cognition and researched the processing of two-character compound words in Chinese and the perceptual learning process under degraded speech. Currently, she aims to deepen her understanding of the structure of mental lexicon through network analysis. Outside of her research, Yumeng enjoys running marathons and practicing karate.

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