Our Team

Project Director

YING CHOON WU

ASSOCIATE PROJECT SCIENTIST
Institute of Neural Computation, UCSD

My Research Interests

* Problem solving, insight, creativity, and learning
* Fusing multi-modal data (EEG, ECG, gaze patterns, body movement)
* Studying cognition in real world and virtual contexts
* Aesthetic Experience

Publications

Partner Institutions

Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
CREATE

Current Research Assistants

CHIYUAN CHANG

Grad Research Assistant

CHIYUAN CHANG

Grad Research Assistant

My Research Interests
*Improving the robustness of brain-computer interfaces for real-world applications, including artifact removal for electroencephalogram (EEG), signal processing, affective computing, and machine learning.

My Roles
*Implemented algorithms for analyzing eye movements in virtual reality.
*Developed a data analysis pipeline for EEG.

Email:chc418@ucsd.edu

BAIRUI CHEN

Data Analyst

BAIRUI CHEN

Data Analyst

My Research Interests
* Understanding how people make decisions and learn in social contexts.
* Researching how emotions and expectations are represented in visual search behaviors.

My Roles
* Recorded, processed, and analyzed eye tracking data and EEG.
* Built MATLAB functions to identify subjects' different behaviors during visual search.

Email:bac027@ucsd.edu

SYDNEY KESSLER

Staff Research Associate

SYDNEY KESSLER

Staff Research Associate

My Research Interests
* Neurocorrelating aesthetic experiences and incorporating a neuroscientific approach into computational social science.

My Roles
* Data collection for multiple VR and situated experiments, involving a combination of EEG, ECG, eye tracking (Pupil Labs, Tobii in VIVE Pro), and behavioral measures.
* EEG preprocessing/analysis with EEGLAB/MATLAB and Python exploration for the Art + Empathy project.

CANG LE

Web Designer

CANG LE

Web Designer

My Research Interests
*Math
*Design

My Roles
* Recorded, processed, and analyzed eye tracking data and EEG.
* Developed website.
* Assistant to experiments.

Email:cbl008@ucsd.edu

WEICHEN LIU

Designer

WEICHEN LIU

Designer

Previous Research Assistants

CHRISTIAN LAY-GENG

3D and Web Designer

CHRISTIAN LAY-GENG

3D and Web Designer

My Research Interests
* The ability of VR to create new interactive and immersive experiences.
* UIUX design and how it structures tech to be intuitive for its designed target audience.

My Roles
* Developed and calibrated the difficulty of the 3D bullet rooms to induce stress through time and bullet difficulty.
* Redesigned the Insight website and tested it with researchers to better showcase the projects of the Insight lab.

Email:christianlay@me.com

ROBIN XU

EEG C# Scripter

ROBIN XU

EEG C# Scripter

My Research Interests
* Extended apperception and integration between human and merged reality.

My Roles
* Developed interaction experience and services allowing syncing and visualizing information.
* Created a parallel data processing tool to co-work with neuroscientist experiments.
* Researched data processing of eye tracking, body motion, EEG, heart rates, blood pulse and etc.

Email:robinxzq@gmail.com

SUBATHRA RAJ

Data Analyst

SUBATHRA RAJ

Data Analyst

My Research Interests
* Resting state brain activity associated with creativity and problem solving.

My Roles
* Recruited subjects and ran tests for the bullet room project.
* Analyzed EEG and behavioral data of test subjects.

QIWEI DONG

Undergrad Lab Intern

QIWEI DONG

Undergrad Lab Intern

My Research Interests
* Exploring electrophysiology in patient primary motor and sensory areas.

My Roles
* Tested the functionality of multi-signal responses (EEG, PPG, Eye Tracking) in the escape rooms.
* Integrated heart rate data from wearable biomonitors (Biovotion) with Lab Streaming Layer.

JOSH PALLAG

3D Artist and Designer

JOSH PALLAG

3D Artist and Designer

My Research Interests
* Opening up discussion in testing new ways of immersion, user experience, and human cognition in virtual reality.

My Roles
* Prepared the room concept, plans, modeling, texturing assets, lighting, and basic functionality for 3 escape room puzzles and environments to test VR, EEG, and eye-tracking.
* Planned and tested each escape room in order to ensure that each room is as close to the similar difficulty.

Email:josh.pallag@gmail.com

JON PADEN

Artist Engineer

JON PADEN

Artist Engineer

My Research Interests
* Shaping the presence and embodiment in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality, with a special focus on how to build understanding of systems relationships between digital information and the biologically tethered self.

My Roles
* Lead the XRNOC research group collaboration between the Calit2 Defanti Lab and Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imaginations at UC San Diego.

Email:jpaden@ucsd.edu