Lucy Lai
Assistant Teaching Professor at UC San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucy Lai is an Assistant Teaching Professor and cognitive scientist with nine years of research and teaching experience bridging computational neuroscience, decision making, and human-AI collaboration. She earned a PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard and has held research and teaching roles at Harvard, UCL, OIST, and UC San Diego, building courses that train scientists to use quantitative tools while preserving intellectual agency. Her research examines belief change, intellectual humility, and how people and AI can jointly tackle real-world problems, informed by computational modeling and lab-to-classroom translation. An award-winning educator, she has created foundational curricula in quantitative neuroscience and led large teaching teams with exemplary student evaluations. Based in San Diego, she balances rigorous science with creative pursuits—poetry, classical music, and Latin dance—which inform her human-centered approach to AI and pedagogy.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Harvard UniversityHigh School, High School at The Woodlands College Park High SchoolProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gened1125/spring2022
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:353 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
lucylai96/lucylai96.github.io
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:596 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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