Summary
Zhaoning Li is a PhD student in social neuroscience at the University of Macau who bridges computational NLP engineering and experimental social cognition research. With nine years of experience spanning industry NLP roles and academic projects, he has applied PLMs and multi-task learning to medical NLP and engineered computational models of humanness perception in real-world driving studies. His current work links individual brain morphometry, functional connectivity and mentalising ability using novel IS-RSA pipelines and dyadic regression, revealing region-specific mappings and a trinity of structure, connectivity and cognition. Trained in software engineering and information security, he combines rigorous modeling skills with experimental design and seminar leadership, aiming to foster cross-pollination between artificial social intelligence and social psychology. An unexpected thread through his career is a consistent focus on interpretability—whether in diagnosis assistance, causality extraction, or explaining perceived humanness.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering at 中山大学
English, jin chinese (bingzhou subgroup), Chinese