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. |Paper |Data & Code | Press (Swissinfo, SRF, UZH ECON)

  • Invited article featuring this study in American Scientist.

• *In sequential decision making, when and why do people undo their previous decisions? (with Wei Ji Ma Lab) |Paper |Data & Code

Representation and valuation

• *Why do multi-attribute choices so often depart from classical weighted-additive decision rules? Rather than attributing such deviations solely to biases or heuristics, we propose a resource-rational account in which value differences are encoded via capacity-limited information channels. |Preprint
• 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.