Students in Spotlight

Supervised by Pekka Santtila, NYU Shanghai Professor of Psychology, Yongjie Sun, a Master’s student of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program participated in a study that explored whether advanced artificial intelligence systems can replicate human jury decision-making. The findings were published in Law and Human Behavior. 

Supervised by Zhibin Chen, NYU Shanghai Assistant Professor of Engineering, Ruinan Wang, a doctoral student of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program, along with Liang Qingnan (NYU Shanghai PhD), and Shi Zhengyu (Research Assistant) won first prize in the 2024 X-GAME Shanghai Smart New Energy Vehicle Big Data Competition. The team conducted innovative research on electric vehicle charging behavior simulation and proposed a solution titled “Analysis of Heterogeneous Charging Behavior and Facility Matching Driven by Simulation.”

Supervised by Siyao Guo, NYU Shanghai Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Yuping Ye, a Master’s student of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program participated in a study focused on the preprocessing security of the Decisional Diffie Hellman(DDH) problem. The findings were accepted by the ACM Theory of Computing Annual Conference (STOC).

Supervised by Chenghe Guan, NYU Shanghai Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy, Tong Cheng, a Ph.D. candidate of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program participated in a recent study that evaluates the impact of water resource protection policy on the urban form evolution. The findings were published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Supervised by Hanghui Chen, Assistant Professor of Physics at NYU Shanghai, Zhiwei Liu, a Ph.D. candidate of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program participated in a recent study that uncovered a mechanism to induce topologically non-trivial states in artificial oxide heterostructures materials. The findings were published in npj Computational Materials. 

Xiaodan Zheng, a Master’s student at the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program, provided new insights into sense of agency via investigating corollary discharge, a neural signal that allows the brain to predict the sensory feedback of the movement. The research was published in eNeuro. Zheng is supervised by Xing Tian, an Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences at NYU Shanghai, who is also the corresponding author of the study.

Yuhan Lu, a PhD candidate at the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program, led a study that revealed the function of delta-band neural responses in speech comprehension. The work was published in Cerebral Cortex. Yuhan’s supervisor Xing Tian (corresponding author) is an Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences at NYU Shanghai.

Supervised by Hanghui Chen, Assistant Professor of Physics at NYU Shanghai, Zhiwei Liu, a Ph.D. candidate of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program participated in a recent study that gives a theoretical explanation of soft ferromagnetism found in oxide thin films.

Ph.D. student at the NYU-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program Li Siqi participated in a study which explains how speech production may influence sensory perception. The work was published in an article in the neuroscience journal Cerebral Cortex. Li’s advisor Xing Tian (corresponding author) is an Associate Professor of Neural and Cognitive Sciences of NYU Shanghai.

Supervised by Hanghui Chen, Assistant Professor of Physics at NYU Shanghai, Zhiwei Liu, a Ph.D. candidate of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program participated in a recent research project that found an effective way to manipulate Berry curvature in a quantum material named SrRuO3. The results found by the research team appeared in a recent issue of the internationally renowned journal PNAS and mark an important contribution to our understanding of the unique electronic properties of quantum materials.