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 interested in how humans and machines understand and use language.

Recently, 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