My plan for the year 2020-2021

I’m gonna be a second semester junior next semester. I just wanted to share my academic situation. There’re a lot to share^^;

>I led my independent research project on the neural associations of creative and abstract thinking for the whole last year.

I was supposed to present my work at a Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity conference, but the conference will be postponed until next fall.

>This summer, I will take an online training class offered by Emory University. I’m also planning to take some online classes and read books/articles related to neuroscience, mind, and art designs.

>I was selected as the visiting research student of the year 202-2021 in Cognitive Science department at Indiana University in Bloomington.

I will work on an independent project while taking classes and living there for a year. I’m thinking of doing some sort of computational modeling of creativity on individual or collective level. My mentor is Dr. Goldstone who is a learning figure in the field and has collaborated with Douglas Hofstadter, one of the most respectable cognitive scientists.

>For Summer 2021, I was fortunate to receive a research position at Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.

I’m terrified to get a chance to study at one of the top Cognitive Science programs in the world. I will work full time as a research assistant for the whole next summer. It was originally scheduled this summer but deferred because of the pandemic situation.

I’m planning to come back to DePauw Fall 2021 to work on my honors thesis and complete my college education.

In the future, I hope to develop frameworks of knowing, thinking, and living that would provide important insights to understanding and possibilities of intelligence, feminism, and psychiatry. I want to take different approaches (experiments, computer simulations, and/or theories). And as a contemporary art lover, I also wish to combine art making as a form of research. Art provides a great platform to explore a more realistic model of intelligence and illuminate the possibilities/limitations of our thinking and knowing about our intelligence.

I will continue working hard to polish my skills and knowledge. As overcoming recurrent depression, I’m more determined to serve as a model and combat the wrong stigma to resilience and creativity of people with mental illness.

Thank you so much for having helped and assisted me along the way:) I hope the next year will be a wonderful one for you all!