CURRICULUM VITAE

Tong (Tina) Liu 劉彤, BSocSc (First Class Honors), MPhil, PhD

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2024.4 – Present	Georgetown University Medical Center – Washington, DC, USA
			Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Neurology
			Director, Visual Perception and Plasticity Lab

EDUCATION & POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

2023.6 – 2024.3 	National Institute of Mental Health – Bethesda, MD, USA
			Research Fellow
			Mentor: Dr. Elisha Merriam

2018.7 – 2023.6		National Institute of Mental Health – Bethesda, MD, USA
			Visiting/Postdoctoral Fellow 
			Mentors: Drs. Leslie Ungerleider & Elisha Merriam

2013.8 – 2018.5 	Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
			Ph.D. in Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience 
			Advisor: Dr. Marlene Behrmann
			Dissertation Committee: Drs. Michael Tarr, David Plaut, & Carl Olson

2011.9 – 2013.8 	University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong, China 
			MPhil in Psychology: Visual Cognition 
			Advisor: Dr. William Hayward 

2010.1 – 2010.5 	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – IL, USA 
			Student Exchange Program 
			GPA: 4.0/4.0
			
2008.9 – 2011.5		University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong, China 
			Bachelor of Social Sciences (First Class Honors) 
			Major in Psychology, Minor in Politics and Public Administration

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

2023.5			Certificate of Completion, Management Bootcamp: Leadership & Management Training Program
			Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE), NIH
			Instructor: Dr. Lori Conlan

2020.9 – 2021.1		Certificate of Training, ‘Scientists Teaching Science’ 9-week Online Course 
			Instructor: Ms. Barbara Houtz

2020.2 – 2020.8		NIMH Grant Writing Workshop Series and Mock Review Session
			Lead instructor: Dr. David Armstrong

Summer 2018		Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo) - Minneapolis, MN, USA
			Coordinators: Drs. Gunnar Blohm, Paul Schrater & Konrad Körding

Summer 2015		Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience - Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
			Coordinators: Drs. Brian Wandell & Susan Bookheimer

Summer 2014 		Brains, Minds, Machines summer course at MBL – Woods Hole, MA, USA 
			Coordinators: Drs. Tomaso Poggio & L. Mahadevan

PUBLICATIONS

(#co-first authors with equal contribution, ##co-senior authors with equal contribution)

Manuscript under review or in prep

  1. Liu, T.T.#, Granovetter, M.C.#, Maallo, A.M.S., Fu, J.Z., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (in preparation). Microgenesis of plasticity in human visual cortex following large cortical resection. (#co-first authors with equal contribution)

  2. Liu, T.T., Cavanaugh, M.R., Bachmann, H.P., Li, B., Fahrenthold, B.K., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (in preparation). Patients with V1 damage exhibit increased orientation decoding in hMT+, but only if pulvinar is intact.

  3. Cavanaugh, M.R., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P., Duje, T., & Huxlin, K.R. (in preparation). Direction discrimination training recovers fine orientation perception in V1-damage fields.

  4. Ock, E. Y., Joynes, C., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P. (in preparation). Distinct modulation of FEF during orienting and reorienting of exogenous and endogenous attention.

  5. Kronemer, S.I., Gobo, V.E., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Osborne, B.J., Bandettini, P., & Liu, T.T. (in preparation). Visually evoked pupil, blink, and eye movements in cortical blindness.

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Liu, T.T. (2024). Unraveling nature and nurture in cortical (re)organization. Nature Review Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-024-00825-x

  2. Simmons, C., Granovetter, M.C., Robert, S., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2024). Holistic processing and face expertise after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 194, 108789. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108789

  3. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P.##, Liu, T.T.## (2023). Emotion and anxiety interact to bias spatial attention. Emotion. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/emo0001322 (##co-senior authors with equal contribution) American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1037%25252Femo0001322/reader

  4. Ventura, P.#, Liu, T.T.#, Cruz, F., Banha, A., Domingues, M., Guerreiro, J.C., & Delgado, J. (2023). From Perugino to Picasso: holistic processing of faces in paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. DOI: 10.1037/aca0000575 (#co-first authors with equal contribution) American Psychological Association (APA) Showcase: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1037%25252Faca0000575/reader

  5. Yang, F.N., Liu, T.T., Wang, Z. (2023). Corticostriatal connectivity mediates the relationship between sleep and impulsivity in early adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13843

  6. Liu, T.T., Fu, J.Z., Chai, Y., Japee, S., Gang, C., Ungerleider, L.G., & Merriam, E.P. (2022). Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex in response to viewing emotionally expressive faces. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33580-7. Check out this news story which showcases Jason Fu, my postbac and the study’s second author: SOM Student Jason Fu, SOM Class of 2025, Published His Study in Nature Communications

  7. Ventura, P., Liu, T.T., Cruz, F., & Pereira, A. (2022). The mechanisms supporting holistic perception of words and faces are not independent. Memory & Cognition, 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01369-0. Psychonomic Society Featured Content https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/taking-it-all-in-holistic-processing-of-words-and-faces/

  8. Yang, F.N., Liu, T.T., Wang, Z. (2022). Functional connectome mediates the association between sleep disturbance and mental health in preadolescence: a longitudinal mediation study. Human Brain Mapping, 43(6), 2041-2050. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25772

  9. Chai, Y., Liu, T.T., Marrett, S., Li, L., Khojandi, A., Handwerker, D.A., Alink, A., Muckli, L., Bandettini, P.A. (2021). Topographical and laminar distribution of audiovisual processing within human planum temporale. Progress in Neurobiology, 205, 102121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102121

  10. Maallo, A.M.S., Freud, E., Liu, T.T., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2020). Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. NeuroImage, 207, 116345. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116345

  11. Liu, T.T.#, Freud, E.#, Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2019). Perceptual function and category-selective neural organization in children with resections of visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 3160-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3160-18.2019 (#co-first authors with equal contribution) [12 news mentions, including Newsweek, Science Daily, Technology Networks, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Medical Health News, NIH News]

  12. Liu, T.T., Nestor, A., Vida, M., Pyles, J., Patterson, C., Yang, Y., Yang, F.N., Freud, E., & Behrmann, M. (2018). Successful reorganization of category-selective visual cortex following occipito-temporal lobectomy in childhood. Cell Reports, 24(5), 1113-1122.e6. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.06.099 [>70 news mentions, including Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Medium, USA Today, Science Daily, Live Science, etc]

  13. Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2017). Functional outcomes following lesions in visual cortex: Implications for plasticity of high-level vision. Neuropsychologia, 105, 197-214. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.06.030

  14. Liu, T.T., & Behrmann, M. (2014). Impaired holistic processing of left-right composite faces in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00750 (This article is part of the Research Topic Facing the other: Novel theories and methods in face perception research.)

  15. Liu, T.T., Oxner, M., Hayward, W. G., & Behrmann, M. (2014). Holistic processing for left-right composite faces in Chinese and Caucasian observers. Visual Cognition, 22(8), 1050-1071. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2014.944613

  16. Hsiao, J. H., & Liu, T.T. (2012). The optimal viewing position in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 12(2):22, 1-9. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1167/12.2.22

Preregistered studies

  1. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P.#, Liu, T.T.# (2022). The relationship between emotional valence, anxiety, and attentional disengagement. OSF Preregistration DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/V9PW8 (#co-senior authors with equal contribution)

  2. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P.#, Liu, T.T.# (2021). The relationship between emotional valence, anxiety, and attentional bias. OSF Preregistration DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S975H (#co-senior authors with equal contribution)

Public data repositories

  1. Bachmann, H.P, Liu, T. T., Japee, S., & Merriam, E. P. (2022, December 16). The relationship between emotional valence, anxiety, and spatial attention. Retrieved from osf.io/6k9fn DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6K9FN.

Invited Talks

  1. Liu, T.T. (2023, February). Understanding neuroplasticity in the developing and adult human brain. Invited talk at Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, D.C.

  2. Liu, T.T. (2020, September). Layer-specific modulation of responses in human visual cortex by emotional faces. Invited (virtual) talk at Early Career Seminar, University of Nevada, Reno.

  3. Liu, T.T. (2020, July). Layer-specific modulation of responses in human visual cortex by emotional faces. Invited talk at Fellows Afternoon Neuroscience Seminars (FANS), NIMH, NIH.

  4. Liu, T.T. (2017, November). Longitudinal mapping of the reorganization of the visual system in childhood post-lobectomy. Invited talk at Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

  5. Liu, T.T. (2017, January). Understanding cortical reorganization in the visual system. Invited talk at Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China.

  6. Liu, T.T. (2016, June). The developing ventral visual pathway in in patients with hemispherectomy or lobectomy. Invited talk at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Conference Talks

  1. Li, B., Liu, T.T., Cavanaugh, M.R., Bachmann, H.P., Fahrenthold, B.K., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (2024, May). Patients with V1 damage exhibit increased orientation decoding in hMT+, but only if pulvinar is intact. Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Bing Li received VSS 2024 Early Career Scientist Travel Grant]

  2. Liu, T.T., Granovetter, M., Maallo, A.M.S., Fu, J.Z., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2022, November). Microgenesis of plasticity in human visual cortex following large cortical resection. Nanosymposium talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA.

  3. Liu, T.T., Fu, J.Z., Chai, Y., Japee, S., Gang, C., Ungerleider, L.G., Merriam, E.P. (2022, October). Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex in response to viewing emotional facial expressive faces. Talk presented at Optica Fall Vision Meeting. Rochester, NY.

  4. Granovetter, M., Liu, T.T., Maallo, A.M.S., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2022, June). Delineating the Time-Course of Visual System Plasticity, Pre- and Post-Pediatric Occipital Lobectomy. Talk presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Glasgow, Scotland.

  5. Liu, T.T., Granovetter, M., Maallo, A.M.S., Fu, J.Z., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2022, May). Plasticity of visual cortex following large cortical resections. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  6. Liu, T.T., Fu, J.Z., Chai, Y., Japee, S., Ungerleider, L.G., Merriam, E.P. (2020, June). Layer-specific modulation of visual responses in human visual cortex by emotional faces. Talk presented at the Annual (Virtual) Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

  7. Liu, T.T., Nestor, A., Patterson, C., Vida, M., Pyles, J., Yang, Y., Freud, E., & Behrmann, M. (2016, May). The developing ventral visual pathway in a young patient following right occipito-temporal lobectomy. Talk presented at 16th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  8. Cheng, Z., Lao, J., Crookes, K., Liu, T.T., & Caldara. R., Hayward, W.G. (2013, May). Eye movements for scrambled faces. Talk presented at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Suzhou, China.

  9. Liu, T.T., Oxner, M., Hayward, W.G., & Behrmann, M. (2013, July). Holistic processing for left-right composite faces. Talk presented at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Suzhou, China. [Student Travel Award]

  10. Liu, T.T. (2013, June). The hierarchical structure of visual working memory. Talk presented at the Annual Research Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. [Best Oral Presentation]

Conference Posters

  1. Gobo, V.E., Liu, T.T., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Osborne, B., Bandettini, P.A., Kronemer, S.I. (submitted). Visual evoked pupil, blink, and eye movements in cortical blindness. Abstract submitted to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.

  2. Liu, T.T., Cavanaugh, M.R., Bachmann, H.P., Li, B., Fahrenthold, B.K., Melnick, M.D., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (2023, November). Patients with V1 damage exhibit orientation decoding in hMT+ after visual training. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

  3. Liu, T.T., Bachmann, H.P., Cavanaugh, M.R., Fahrenthold, B.K., Melnick, M.D., Japee, S., Huxlin, K.R., & Merriam, E.P. (2023, May). Bypassing V1: Orientation selectivity in hMT+ of cortically-blinded patients. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  4. Cavanaugh, M.R., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P., Duje, D., & Huxlin, K.R. (2023, May). Direction discrimination training recovers fine orientation perception in V1-damage fields. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  5. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Liu, T.T. (2022, November). Emotion and Anxiety Interact to Bias Spatial Attention. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

  6. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Liu, T.T. (2022, May). The Relationship between Emotional Valence, Anxiety, and Attentional Bias. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Helena Bachmann received VSS 2022 Early Career Scientist Travel Grant]

  7. Bachmann, H.P., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Liu, T.T. (2022, April). The Relationship between Emotional Valence, Anxiety, and Attentional Bias. Poster Presented at NIH Postbac Poster Day, Bethesda, MD. [Helena Bachmann received 2022 NIH Postbac Poster Day Outstanding Poster Award]

  8. Fu, J.Z., Liu, T.T., Merriam, E.P., Ungerleider, L.G. (2020, April). Spatio-temporal dynamics and spectral profile of facial valence processing in V1. Virtual poster presented at NIH Postbac Poster Day.

  9. Liu, T.T., Fu, J.Z., Japee, S., Chai, Y., Ungerleider, L.G., Merriam, E.P. (2019, October). Affective processing of face stimuli in human primary visual cortex. Poster presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.

  10. Fu, J.Z, Liu, T.T., Japee, S., Chai, Y., Ungerleider, L.G., Merriam, E.P. (2019, September). Facial valence processing in human primary visual cortex. Poster presented at the 21st Annual NIMH IRP Fellows’ Scientific Training Day, Washington, D.C.

  11. Fu, J.Z., Liu T.T., Japee, S., Merriam, E.P., Ungerleider, L.G. (2019, August) Using laminar fMRI to probe affective processing in V1. Poster Presented at NIH Postbac Poster Day, Bethesda, MD.

  12. Yang, F.N., Xu, S., Liu, T.T., Rao, H. (2017, November). Randomized response-stimulus intervals are implicitly encoded as temporal probabilities in the human brain. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

  13. Liu, T.T., Nestor, A., Kay, K.N., Vida, M., Pyles, J., Zhang, X., Patterson, C. & Behrmann (2016, November). The topography of early & higher-order visual cortex following temporal lobectomy. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

  14. Liu, T.T., Nestor, A., Kay, N.K, Vida, M., Pyles, J., Zhang, X., Patterson, C., & Behrmann, M. (2015, May). The topography of early and higher-order visual cortex in patients with hemispherectomy/lobectomy. Poster presented at 15th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. [Student Travel Award]

  15. Liu, T.T., Oxner, M., Hayward, W.G., & Behrmann, M. (2014, May). Holistic processing for left-right composite faces. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  16. Hayward, W.G., Lao, J., Cheng, Z., Crookes, K., Liu, T.T., & Caldara. R. (2013, May). Eye movements for scrambled faces. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

  17. Liu, T.T., Chen, Z., & Hayward, W.G. (2013, May). High and low: The resolution of representations in visual working memory. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

  18. Liu, T.T., & Hayward, W.G. (2012, May). Interactions between space-, surface-, and object-based attention. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

  19. Hsiao, J.H., & Liu, T.T. (2011, July). The optimal viewing position in face recognition. Poster presented at the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Hong Kong.

REPRESENTATIVE MEDIA COVERAGE

  1. “The Brain That Remade Itself” OneZero — Medium https://onezero.medium.com/the-brain-that-remade-itself-bcc7b3a43cff

  2. “When surgeons removed one sixth of a child’s brain, here’s what happened.” — CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/health/surgeons-remove-part-of-childs-brain-case-study/index.html

  3. “A 12-year-old had one-sixth of his brain removed. He feels ‘perfectly normal.’” — Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/08/02/a-12-year-old-had-one-sixth-of-his-brain-removed-he-feels-perfectly-normal/

  4. “Boy recovers normal life after losing big part of his brain” — NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/boy-recovers-normal-life-after-losing-big-part-his-brain-n896341?cid=public-rss_20180731

  5. “A child lost a sixth of his brain, then made an amazing comeback.” — PBS News Hour https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/this-child-lost-a-sixth-of-his-brain-the-rest-learned-to-pick-up-the-slack

  6. “Epileptic Girl Who Had Half Her Brain Removed Can Read After Organ Rewired Itself” — Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/epileptic-girl-who-had-half-her-brain-removed-can-read-after-organ-rewired-itself-1441797

  7. “Children’s brains reorganize after epilepsy surgery to retain visual perception – NIH-funded study shows that in children, the brain can compensate for missing regions of the visual cortex” — NIH News https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/childrens-brains-reorganize-after-epilepsy-surgery-retain-visual-perception

HONORS, AWARDS & FELOWSHIPS

September 2020	Office of Fellowship Training (OFT) Trainee Travel Award, NIMH, NIH

2018 – 2023	Intramural Research Training Award, National Institutes of Health

Summer 2018 	Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Fellowship

2016 – 2017	Presidential Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University 

Summer 2015	Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship

May 2015	Student Travel Award, Vision Sciences Society

Summer 2014	Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer School Fellowship

2013 – 2014 	Ungerleider Carnegie Prize Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University 

July 2013	Student Travel Award, Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision 

June 2013 	Best Oral Presentation, 13th Annual Research Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong 

2011 – 2013 	Conference Grants for Research Postgraduate Students, University of Hong Kong

2011 – 2013 	Postgraduate Scholarships, University of Hong Kong  

2011		BSocSc awarded with First Class Honors, University of Hong Kong

2009		Serena Yang Award for Social Innovation, University of Hong Kong
 
2009 – 2011	Dean’s Honors list, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong

MENTORING EXPERIENCE

2024 Summer	Rotation Mentor, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
		Mentee: Beth Rispoli, PhD student

2024 – Present 	Thesis Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
		MD/PhD student: Noah Steinberg

2023 - 2024 	Mentor, NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) program
		Mentee: Bing Li
		Now: Neuroscience graduate student at Princeton University 
		2024: Recipient of the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Recipient of the 2024 VSS Early Career Scientist Travel Grant

2023 - 2024	Co-mentor, NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) program
		Mentee: June Hee Kim (2021-2024, co-mentorship: 2023-2024)
		2022: Winner of the 2022 VSS Graphics Competition  

2022 - 2024	Co-mentor, NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) program
		Mentee: Elena Younhye Ock (2021-2024, co-mentorship: 2022-2024)
		Now： MD/PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder
		2023: Recipient of the 2023 VSS Early Career Scientist Travel Grant, Recipient of the Travel award to attend the "Training in Advanced Statistics in Neuroimaging and Genetics" course at the University of Utah
		2022: Recipient of the 2022 NIH Postbac Poster Day Outstanding Poster Award, Recipient of the Helmsley Scholarship for the Cold Spring Harbor Course "Schizophrenia and Related Disorders"

2022 - 2023	Co-mentor, NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) program
		Mentee: Maeve Sargeant (2020-2023, co-mentorship: 2022-2023)
		Now：Clinical Health Psychology grad student at East Carolina University
		2021: Finalist of the 2021 NIMH Three-Minute-Talk  

2021 - 2023	Mentor, NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) program
		Mentee: Helena (Lanie) Bachmann 
		Now： Neuroscience grad student at Columbia University
		2022: Recipient of the 2022 VSS Early Career Scientist Travel Grant, Recipient of the 2022 NIH Postbac Poster Day Outstanding Poster Award, Recipient of the 2022 NIMH Trainee Travel Award, Winner of the 2022 NIMH Three-Minute-Talk 

2021 – 2024	Advisor, Action Potential Advising Program, Simply Neuroscience
		(an international, student-led NPO dedicated to fostering students' interdisciplinary interests in the brain)
		Mentees: Suma Dendi, Abhay Kapoor, Michelle Nehez, Aishwarya Krishnaswamy, Deena Khan

2018 – 2021	Mentor, NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) program
		Mentee: Jason Fu 
		Now： MD student at New York Medical College
 		
2015 – 2017 	Mentor, Carnegie Mellon University 
		Mentee: Adam Dickter 
		MD from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (2024)
		Now: Resident at Forbes Hospital | Allegheny Health Network, PA

GRANT WRITING EXPERIENCE

2022		Resubmission, NIMH Pathway to Independence Awards (K99/R00) 
		"Linking emotional processing and neural activity through layer-specific fMRI, MEG, and neurofeedback"
		Impact Score: 35 
		
2021		Initial Submission, NIMH Pathway to Independence Awards (K99/R00) 
		"Linking emotional processing and neural activity through layer-specific fMRI, MEG, and neurofeedback"
		Impact Score: 33 

2020 		NIMH Grant Writing Workshop Series

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sep 2024	ICOS 7710 Cognitive Science Core Course (GU), Lead instructor: Dr. Abigail Marsh
		Delivered a lecture/seminar on “Vision” 

Fall 2017	Biological Foundations of Behavior (CMU), Course instructor: Lori Holt
		Delivered a lecture on "hemispheric differences"
		Assisted with dissection labs (Eye dissection & brain dissection)
		Held office hours
		Coordinated undergrad TAs in grading

Fall 2016	Cognitive Psychology (CMU), Course instructor: Erik Thiessen
		Delivered a lecture on "face perception"
		Held office hours
		Coordinated undergrad TAs in grading
		Led recitations 

Spring 2015	Social Psychology (CMU), Course instructor: Vicki Helgeson
		Delivered a lecture on "fixed vs. growth: the two basic mindsets"
		Held office hours
		Led recitation sections
		Graded essays and exams

Fall 2015	Biological Foundations of Behavior (CMU), Course instructor: Marlene Behrmann
		Delivered a lecture on "the visual system" 
		Assisted with dissection labs (Eye dissection & brain dissection)
		Held office hours
		Led recitations
		Coordinated undergrad TAs in grading

Fall 2012	Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Psychology (HKU), Course instructor: Li Li
		Led weekly tutorials
		Graded exams
		Held office hours

Fall 2011	Foundations of Cognitive Science (HKU), Course instructor: Li Li
		Designed and led weekly tutorials 
		(covering topics in Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Visual arts)
		Graded exams
		Held office hours

EDITORIAL SERVICE

Reviewing editor, Editorial Board of Neuroimaging for Cognitive Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroimaging

Ad hoc Reviewer, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Ad hoc Reviewer, Cerebral Cortex

Ad hoc Reviewer, Communications Biology

Ad hoc Reviewer, eLife x 4

Ad hoc Reviewer, F1000Research

Ad hoc Reviewer, Neuropsychologia

Ad hoc Reviewer, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (co-reviewed with Dr. Marlene Behrmann)

Ad hoc Reviewer, Visual Cognition

OTHER SERVICE AND CERTIFICATES

2024 - Present	Thesis Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University 

2024 - Present	Project Selection Committee, NexGen 7T U24 Dissemination Grant (NIH) awarded to University of California, Berkeley 

2024 		QS World University Rankings Survey for Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2023 - Present  Certified Youth Mental Health First Aider, Mental Health First Aid - National Council for Mental Wellbeing

2021 - 2023	Certified CPR Basic Life Support, American Heart Association

2019 - Present	NMRF Scanner Operator, 3T Discovery MR750 scanner (GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility (FMRIF), NIH Bethesda Campus

2018 - Present	NMRF Scanner Operator, MAGNETOM 7T scanner (Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility (FMRIF), NIH Bethesda Campus

2018 - 2020	Certified CPR Lay Responder, American Heart Association

2018 – 2019	Panelist, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Journal Club

2016 – 2017	Graduate Student Representative, American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS), Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon 
		University

Fall 2014	Organizer, Cognitive Brown Bag, Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University

2012 – 2013	Councilor, Postgraduate Student Association, University of Hong Kong

Summer 2011	Conference Helper, the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Hong Kong

2008 – 2011	Student Ambassador, University of Hong Kong

Summer 2008	Volunteer, Media Operations, Beijing Olympic Games, Beijing, China

Professional Affiliations

Society for Neuroscience

Vision Sciences Society

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (formerly OSA)

WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC

In 2015, I began writing about cognitive psychology and the brain for the public on Zhihu, which was then a Chinese question-and-answer website similar to Quora in English but has recently become Zhihu Inc. (NASDAQ: ZH).

To date, my popular science blog has received more than 38,000 likes, 45,000 favorites, and 7 professional endorsements. Moreover, Zhihu Editor’s Picks, Zhihu Roundtable, and Zhihu Daily have featured 25 of my answers and 10 of my articles. In recognition of my contributions to the fields of Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychology on Zhihu, I have been awarded the title of “Outstanding Respondent.”

PS. I occasionally use the pen name “This is Not Tina” for my writing.

A. My ongoing collaborations with editors at Zhihu.

A1. eBook (2017): Imposter Syndrome「亚优秀症候群」

A2. Live podcast (2018): How to overcome imposter feelings? 如何停止自我否定，摆脱「骗子综合症」?

A3. Zhihu Book Club recommendation in 2018: Growth mindset「终身成长」
I suggested the book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, published by Random House in 2006. Note: This recording does not feature my voice, but instead that of a professional voice actor.

A4. Zhihu Book Club recommendation in 2019: Emotional Intelligence「情商」
I recommended the book “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” by Daniel Goleman, published by Bantam Books in 2005. Note: This recording does not feature my voice, but instead that of a professional voice actor.

B. My recent collaborations with Cheers Publishing, one of the top publishing groups in China.

B1. Audiobook narration and interpretation in 2022: 「认知天性」
Brown, P. C., Roediger III, H. L., & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make it stick: The science of successful learning. Harvard University Press. Note: This recording features my voice.

B2. Podcast in 2023: Brain fog: a tale of brain and body 「职场人的脑雾清除计划」 Note: This recording features my own voice.

C. Creative writing in 2021: It was not a bad year because of you.
This is my debut creative writing in English. It chronicles my informal correspondence with NoBe Starbucks in MD as a recipient of Starbucks® for a year. I hope it makes for a light and entertaining read :)