Prof. WU Haiyan
Assistant Professor (ICI-CCBS)

Office: Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao, Research Building (N21), G1003
Tel: +(853) 8822 9210
E-mail: haiyanwu@um.edu.mo
Consultation Hours: Thursday, 10am-11:00am

Affiliation

Professional services

  • Associate editor, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2020-2022
  • Session chair of Social cognitive science, Chinese Society for Cognitive Science
  • Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  • Member of Society of Neuroscience (SfN)
  • Member of Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
  • Member of China Computer Federation (CFF)

Reviewers

  • Journals: Neuroimage; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Neuroimaging: clinical; Psychophysiology; Neuroscience Bulletin; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing
  • Funding: NSFC
  • Editorial: Neuroscience Bulletin

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
  • M.S., Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China
  • B.E., Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guangxi, China

Academic Positions

  • 2020.08 – now University of Macau, Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Macau
  • 2017.03 – 2020.07 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
  • 2017.10 – 2019.01 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, US, Visiting Associate Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 2013.07 – 2017.02 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Honors and Awards

  • (2018) Supervision award: PhD student Yanyan Qi wins the Awards of CAS
  • (2017) Outstanding associate professor of Institute of Psychology, CAS
  • (2010) Outstanding graduate student of Zhejiang Normal University

Research Interests

I am interested in exploring the mechanisms that describe and/or affect behavioral and neuronal responses during decision making in social interaction. In my research, I use diverse methods (Mturk, psychophysiological recordings, mouse tracking/eye tracking, computational modeling, EEG, TDCS/TMS and fMRI) to find answers to social neuroscience questions:
Our current research directions:
1) Social cognition and affective neuroscience: the multi-modal representation of negative emotional experiences (anxiety, fear, helpless) and its neurocomputation; the learning and representation of social information (social distance, emotional variability, affiliation) and its influence on social relationship; the neurocomputation of mentalizing and social decision-making (dishonesty decisions); the effect of pharmaceutical modulation (oxytocin) and neuromodulation (TMS&TDCS) on social cognition and behaviors.
2) Computational neuroscience: we mainly leverage Bayesian modeling, Reinforcement learning, Drift-diffusion model to quantify human social learning and adaptive social decision-making.
3) Artificial intelligence (AI) and Human-AI interaction: e.g., how AI facilitates empathy and interaction between human-AI and even between human-human, how human perceive and inference the affect of AI.

Grants as PI

  • 2021-2024 Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) of Macau (0127/2020/A3)
  • Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2021A1515012509)
  • RG of University of Macau (SRG202000027-ICI)
  • Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Project (Category C) (SGDX2020110309280100)
  • 2018-2021 Project of “Neural mechanism of dishonesty in social interactions” Supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
  • 2016-2018 Project of “The oxytocin effect on social emotions and behaviors” Supported by Scientific Foundation of CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science
  • 2014-2017 Project of “The neural mechanism of group identity effect on empathy” Supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
  • 2013-2015 Project of “The interpersonal relationship and social decision making” Supported by Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2012-2014 Project of “The cross-culture neural mechanism of kinship” Supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2012YBXS01)
  • 2008-2010 Project of “The RT- and ERP-based implicit concealed information test” Supported by the Innovation Project for Graduate students of Zhejiang Province (YK2008039)

Professional affiliations and services

Professional services

  • Associate editor, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2020
  • Session chair of Social cognitive science, Chinese Society for Cognitive Science
  • Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  • Member of Society of Neuroscience (SfN)
  • Member of Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
  • Member of China Computer Federation (CFF)

Reviewers

  • Journals: Neuroimage; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Neuroimaging: clinical; Psychophysiology; Neuroscience Bulletin; Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience; IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing
  • Funding: NSFC
  • Editorial: Neuroscience Bulletin