Professor Qihong Lu recently joined the Department of Neuroscience as Assistant Professor under the Presidential Assistant Professors Scheme.
In 2023, Prof. Lu obtained his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Princeton University, advised by Kenneth A. Norman and Uri Hasson. He then worked as an Alan Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he was advised by Daphna Shohamy and Stefano Fusi.
His team will use artificial neural networks as model organisms to understand computational principles of learning and memory in humans, and then use behavioral and neuroimaging experiments to test model predictions. Reverse-engineering human memory in artificial neural network models. can lead to insights into the cognitive architecture the brain employs and the statistical structure of the environment in which we live, which has implications in both clinical settings and NeuroAI.