I have a broad interest in investigating various aspects of human decision-making, integrating computational modeling, machine learning, and empirical testing with behavioral and psychophysiological experiments. My current research focuses on two main areas:

Decision-making under uncertainty

• *Why do most people avoid taking responsibility for others? We show that decisions impacting others lead to reduced decision confidence, resulting in aversion to responsibility. |Preprint (in press at Science Advances)
• *In sequential decision making, when and why do people undo their previous decisions? (with Wei Ji Ma Lab) |Preprint

Representation and valuation

• *Can systematic “biases” in multi-attribute choice arise from resource-rational compression of attribute differences?
• Do our senses provide us with veridical representations of the world? Our model and empirical tests show that early stages of sensory processing encode stimuli to maximize reward and not necessarily to maximize accuracy. |Paper|Data & Code|Press

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2014 - 2017

I was mainly interested in building “genetically engineered machines”. I took part in iGEM competition several times with different roles.