Jingyuan Selena She

Hi, I’m Selena. I am a post-bacc RA at MIT working with Ev Fedorenko. Here, I work on many projects related to language processing and representations in brains and LMs.
I am starting my PhD at Stanford in fall 2025.
I am interested in how humans and machines use language to understand meanings, share knowledge, and achieve goals. To study this, I hope to bridge insights from artificial intelligence (e.g., NN interpretability) and cognitive science (e.g., neuroimaging).
Before coming to MIT, I graduated from Haverford College with majors in Mathematics and Cognitive Science. I was also lucky to work with some wonderful mentors: Benjamin Zinszer through my senior thesis, Chris Potts and Tobias Gerstenberg through the CSLI internship, and Furong Huang through the REU-CAAR program.
News:
- 08/2024: Check out our poster on focal language processing at CCN
- 06/2024: Our project on syntax in the brain is preprinted
- 11/2023: Our paper on event knowledge in LMs is out in Cognitive Science
- 07/2023: I presented our paper on negation in LMs at ACL
- 07/2023: Presented two papers at Cogsci Society: lexical semantics and categorization in humans vs. LMs
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