Hanlin Wu
I’m a psychologist hiding in linguistics. I work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Neurobiology of Language Learning (NLL) Lab, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), a Research Master in Basic Psychology (Renmin University of China), and a B.A. in Translation and Interpreting (Beijing International Studies University).
I’m interested in how human brains (and artificial systems) represent, process, and learn speech. My postdoctoral projects focus on how phonetic categories are represented and learned by the human brain, and how the human learning process can be simulated by deep neural networks (transformer). My PhD dissertation explores how language is rationally processed by the brain in a broad context that involves the information of the speaker. Other projects include how brains of autistic children process social-emotional language, and how large audio language models process social-linguistic information. In most of my work, I use EEG, functional MRI, machine learning, and computational metrics.
Contact: hanlinwu@cuhk.edu.hk
Hanlin Wu 