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Curriculum vitae Prof. Angela Yu, PhD

  • Education

    2005 Doctorate (supervisor: Prof. Peter Dayan), Computational Neuroscience, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
    1996-2000 Degree Programmes: BSc Mathematics, BSc Computer Science, BSc Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2022-current Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2014-2022 Associate Professor, University of California San Diego (UCSD), CA, USA
    2008-2014 Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
    2005-2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University, NJ, USA

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2023 ‘Girls’ Day’ at Technical University of Darmstadt
    2012 Faculty panelist at Cognitive Science Student Association Conference University of California San Diego
    2006-2008 Founding president Princeton University Postdoc Social Club
    2006-2008 Board of Trustees MIT Club of Princeton

  • Commissions of Trust

    Reviewer for grants:
    NSF/NIH Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience; NSF Cognitive Neuroscience; NSF Computational Cognition; NSF Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences; NSF Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Program; NSF Perception, Action, & Cognition NIH Brain Initiative; NIH Computational Psychiatry; NIH Drug Abuse
    Editor for journals:
    Psychological Review; Decision; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (special issue)
    2017-2018 Girls’ Angle, a nonprofit organization encouraging girls (grades 5-12) to pursue a mathematical education
    2014 ‘Girls Day Out’ Women in Computation panelist. Outreach and education program to encourage San Diego-area high school girls to get involved in computer science

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2022 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
    2018 University of California San Diego (UCSD) General Campus Bridge Grant “Learning and Decision-Making in Human Exploratory Behavior”
    2018 UCSD Social Sciences Division Research Grant “Computational Modeling of Facial Features Underlying Social Processing of Faces”
    2018 UCSD Chancellor’s Research Excellence Scholarship “Neural Coding of Facial Features Underlying Social Perception of Faces”
    2017 UCSD Contextual Robotics Seed Grant “Computational Physiognomy for Human Robot Teaming”
    2017 UCSD Academic Senate Research Grant “Bayesian Modeling of Human Face Processing”
    2017 UCSD Frontiers of Innovation Fellowship “Characterizing human representation of complex information based on crowdsourced data”
    2016 UCSD Academic Senate Research Grant “Bayesian Embedding Algorithms for Human Similarity Judgments”
    2016 UCSD Frontiers of Innovation Fellowship “Learning to stop in healthy humans and stimulant users: a Bayesian model-based Analysis”
    2015 UCSD Frontiers of Innovation Fellowship “From pixels to perceptual manifolds: Utilizing machine learning to understand the perception of facial attractiveness”
    2013 NSF CRCNS Award “A computational and neuroimaging investigation of prediction and learning in cognitive control” (PI)
    2013 US Army Research Office MURI Award “Value-Centered Information Theory for Adaptive Learning, Inference, Tracking, and Exploitation” (Project Lead)
    2013 UAI Conference Scholarship
    2013 UCSD Academic Research Grant “Human Decision-Making under Competitive Pressure”
    2012 Qualcomm Fellow, Advisor, Mentor (FMA) Fellowship
    2012 Nominee for James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition
    2011 NIH NIDA B/START R03 award “A neurocognitive and computational study of inhibitory control in substance use”
    2011 Hellman Foundation Fellowship
    2010 US Arm Research Lab collaborative grant: “Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance”, project leader
    2008 UCSD Aademic Senate Research Grant “Psychophysical Studies of Visual Processing and Cognitive Control of Eye Movements”
    2007 Finalist for Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s “Career Awards at the Scientific Interface”
    2006 Neural Information Processing Systems Travel Grant
    2006 Finalist for Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s “Career Awards at the Scientific Interface”
    2005 Neural Information Processing Systems Travel Grant
    2005 NIH NRSA Training Grant
    2004 Brain Trust Travel Grant
    2003 UCL Graduate School Student Conference Fund Major Award
    2003 Travel fellowship for AIM workshop “Inference and Prediction in Neocortical Circuits”
    2003 Finalist for Royal Institution “UK Science Graduate of the Year Award”
    2002 UCL Graduate School Student Conference Fund Major Award
    2001 UCL Bogue Research Fellowship
    2001 Travel fellowship for 5th International Conference on Cognitive & Neural Systems
    2000 UCL Graduate School Research Scholarship
    2000 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
    2000 MIT Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Brain Science
    2000 Elected member of Phi Beta Kappa (MIT chapter)
    2000 MIT Theodore Mangelsdorf Scholarship
    1998 Elected Member and Officer of Eta Kappa Nu (MIT chapter)
    1995 National Merit Scholarship

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