Members: Lab Members

Pin-Hao Andy Chen

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, 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. NTU Doctoral Scholarship (2023-2025)

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). Synchronized facial behaviors in the presence of a large-scale lockdown event.

3. Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Kim, M.J., Chou, F.-C. B., & Chen, P.-H. A. (Under review). Intersubject representational similarity analysis uncovers the impact of state anxiety on multivariate activation patterns in the human extrastriate cortex.

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, interacting minds, computational social psychology, machine learning & facial behaviors.

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). Synchronized facial behaviors in the presence of a large-scale lockdown event.

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: Social Neuroscience, computational social psychology, computational neuroscience & machine learning.

Publications and Honors:

1. Hsiao, P.-Y. A., Kim, M.J., Chou, F.-C. B., & Chen, P.-H. A. (Under review). Intersubject representational similarity analysis uncovers the impact of state anxiety on multivariate activation patterns in the human extrastriate cortex.

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 visions, computational social psychology, social neuroscience, machine learning & non-verbal behavior.

Publications and Honors:

1. Chiu, T.-A. P., Chou, F.-C. B., Hsiao, P.-Y. A., & Chen, P.-H. A. (2023). The distance computing process is involved in determining subjective preference. 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). Exploring cross-domain text semantic similarity using large language models. Taiwanese Psychological Association 2023 Annual Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2. Chen, P.-H. A., Chang, C.-Y. E., & Chou, F.-C. B. (2023). Exploring the impact of self-monitoring on neural representations of food cues: an intersubject representational similarity analysis approach. 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: Interacting minds, 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 expression 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