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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Feria Chang

As someone who enjoys picking up new languages, Feria developed an interest in language and how it is processed in our minds. Her current research interest is to better understand the mental lexicon by examining the network in which words are represented and connected in our minds.

Wong Jin Jye

An aspiring data scientist, Jin Jye graduated from the National University of Singapore with his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology after pursuing his interests in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics, capping it off with his honours thesis on the language of fake news and its interactions with human memory. Nowadays, he has shifted his focus to language and cognition in computers, getting into subjects such as natural language processing and neural networks. Likes to play around in R and Python.

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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.