Ruoying Zheng

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This is Ruoying Zheng (郑若颖), a third year PhD student at UC San Diego, supervised by Dr. Chujun Lin and Dr. Piotr Winkielman. Previously, I worked as a research assistant in the Social & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of Hong Kong, supervised by Dr. Xiaoqing Hu. I obtained a Master’s degree in Psychology from Sun Yat-sen University, supervised by Dr. Guomei Zhou and completed my undergraduate studies in Intellectual Property and Computer Science at South China University of Technology.

I am fascinated by social vision and aesthetics. As social animals, we encounter a myriad of people every day. How do we make judgements of others via visual information and how does this influence our subsequent social behaviors? I currently combine behavioral experiments and computational modeling to explore these questions.

In my spare time, I enjoy writing, hiking, and photography. You can view some of my photography work here.