The N.E.T. community is honored to announce two ECNU master’s candidates, Bao Hong and Xikang Luo as the respective recipients of the Academic Excellence Award and Community Impact Award. Both recipients commented on the encouragement and “affirmation of confidence” they felt upon receiving their awards and look to a bright future for their research careers. Currently, in the second year of his master’s program in Cognitive Neuroscience, Academic Excellence Award winner Bao Hong is pursuing research in visual perception as a member of Professor Li Li’s Perception and Action Lab. Also entering his second year in his master’s study in Cognitive Neuroscience, Community Impact Award winner Xikang Luo works in Professor Tian Xing’s SLANG laboratory, where his research focuses on computational neuroscience and mathematics.
Though Bao Hong and Xikang Luo have chosen to pursue different paths in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience, both students speak about the significance of their research journeys being shaped by their mentors, peers and the opportunities and resources available to them through N.E.T.
Academic Excellence Award
Bao Hong
NYU Shanghai - ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program (N.E.T.)
What do you find unique about the N.E.T Program? How has being a member of the N.E.T. community affected you and your research?
Bao Hong: “My supervisor, Professor Li Li, helped me to identify my research direction, encouraged me to pursue research where my interests truly lie and has fully supported me throughout the process. My current work is exactly what I am interested in. I am now participating in several major collaborative research projects, which is a very rare and valuable experience for master’s students. I am now so happy to have received the Community Impact Award from the NET program. I feel inspired and enlightened. Speaking of my future, I will continue to move my scientific research projects forward as planned.”
Community Impact Award
Xikang Luo
NYU Shanghai - ECNU Joint Graduate Training Program (N.E.T.)
What do you find unique about the N.E.T Program? How has being a member of the N.E.T. community affected you and your research?
Xikang Luo: “I felt so inspired by the experience of collaboration and exchange after my first experience in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Neuroscience at NYU Shanghai. Through SURP, I got to know more experts and scientific research projects, that helped me decide to pursue postgraduate study afterwards, and luckily, I’m being a member of the N.E.T. Community. I felt the responsibility to share my research experience with prospective students and help peers in the manner that I had received help when first starting out. I am very happy to be able to do something beneficial to build the community, and I will continue contributing to the construction of the N.E.T. scientific research community. I think the uniqueness of the N.E.T. program rests in the diversity of perspectives and focus areas. Whenever we start work on a project, we can always find excellent partners. I always feel so fortunate to team up with such a talented group of peers.”