
Pin-Hao Andy Chen
Director [CV] [Email] [Google scholar]
Andy Chen received his Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He joined the faculty at National Taiwan University as an assistant professor in 2020 at the Department of Psychology. He uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining experimental social psychology and computational methods to gain a better understanding of the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in interacting minds. He has published in Nature Human Behaviour, Science Advances, eLife, and Neuroimage. He also received Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (Early career award) from Taiwan NSTC in 2021. He is now a consulting editor at JoCN and the secretary at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS).

Feng-Chun Ben Chou
PhD student [Google scholar]
Ben received his bachelor's degree in Physics. He is now a Ph.D. student in the Social Psychology program at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Interacting minds, social network, computational social psychology, social neuroscience, machine learning & non-verbal behaviors.
Publications and Honors:
(1) 2023-2025 NTU Doctoral Scholarship
(2) Chou, F.-C. B.,* Chen, Y.-C. C.,* Kuo, Y.-S. A., Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Lin, C. R., Huang, Y.-W. Y., Pan, H.-J. S., & Chen, P.-H. A. (Under review).
(3) Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Kim, M.J., Chou, F.-C. B., & Chen, P.-H. A. (Under revision).

Yu-Chieh Chloe Chen
Graduate student
Chloe received her bachelor's degree with a double major in History and Psychology. She is now a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Virtual reality, shared experience, computational social psychology, machine learning & facial behavior analysis.
Publications and Honors:
(1) Chou, F.-C. B.,* Chen, Y.-C. C.,* Kuo, Y.-S. A., Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Lin, C. R., Huang, Y.-W. Y., Pan, H.-J. S., & Chen, P.-H. A. (Under review).
(2) 2022 NSTC Undergraduate Research Innovation Award
(3) 2021 NSTC Undergraduate Research Grant

Po-Yuan Alan Hsiao
Graduate student
Alan received his bachelor's degree in Psychology. He is now a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Computational social neuroscience, computational neuroscience, ideology & machine learning.
Publications and Honors:
(1) Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Kim, M.J., Chou, F.-C. B., & Chen, P.-H. A. (Under revision).
(2) 2022 NSTC NTU Undergraduate Thesis - Dean’s Award
(3) 2022 NSTC Undergraduate Research Grant

Tung-An Phoenix Chiu
Graduate student
Phoenix received her bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. She is now a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Interacting minds, computer vision, computational social neuroscience, preference & machine learning.
Publications and Honors:
(1) Chiu, T.-A. P., Chou, F.-C. B., Hsiao, P.-Y. A., & Chen, P.-H. A. (2023). Symposium Talk at Taiwanese Psychological Association 2023 Annual Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Chih-Yuan Edward Chang
Undergraduate research assistant
Edward is a senior undergraduate student with a double major in Environmental Engineering and Psychology at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Interacting minds, natural language processing, computational social psychology, machine learning & non-verbal behavior.
Publications and Honors:
(1) Chang, C.-Y. E., Chou, F.-C. B. & Chen, P.-H. A. (2023). Taiwanese Psychological Association 2023 Annual Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
(2) Chen, P.-H. A., Chang, C.-Y. E., & Chou, F.-C. B. (2023). Consciousness Research Network 2023 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

Yu-Wen Julie Liu
Undergraduate research assistant
Julie is a senior undergraduate student with a major in Business Administration at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Individual differences, psychophysiological analysis & computational social psychology.

Chih-Yu Maggie Jao
Undergraduate research assistant
Maggie is a junior undergraduate student with a major in Life Science at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Interacting minds, family dynamics, computational social psychology.

Hsin-Lien Sophie Hsieh
Undergraduate research assistant
Sophie is a junior undergraduate student with a major in Veterinary Medicine at National Taiwan University.
Research interest: Interacting minds, facial behavioral analysis, computational social psychology.
Lab Alumni
Lulu Lin, former full-time RA. She received her Master of information systems management at Carnegie Mellon University. She is now a Software Engineer at Cardlytics.
Rose Lin, former undergraduate RA. She is now enrolled in the Applied Data Science Program at Utrecht University.
Sharon Pan, former undergraduate RA. She is now enrolled in a master degree program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ashlee Kou, former graduate student
Wendy Lee, former undergraduate RA