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Education

Ph.D in Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2030 (expected)
M.S. in Systems Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, UK, 2024 (Top 1 in Cohort)
B.S. in Statistics, Beijing Technology and Business University, China, 2021

Work experience

08/2025 - 06/2026: Visiting Student
- Beijing Normal University
- Duties includes: Data Acquisition, Analysis (fNIRS)
- Supervisor: Prof. Chao Liu, SAN Lab
08/2025 - 05/2026: Remote Research Assistant
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Duties includes: Data Analysis (Meta-Analysis)
- Supervisor: Prof. Hirotaka Imada, CIP Lab
11/2024 - 04/2025: Visiting Student
- University of Birmingham
- Duties includes: Data Acquisition (Lab-Based)
- Supervisor: Prof. Lei Zhang, ALPN Lab
08/2022 - 04/2023: Research Assistant
- Beijing Normal University
- Duties included: Data Analysis (iEEG)
- Supervisor: Prof. Yina Ma, SANP Lab
06/2021 - 08/2022: Visiting Student
- Beijing Normal University
- Duties included: Programmed evolution models (Agent-Based Modelling)
- Supervisor: Prof. Yina Ma, SANP Lab

Skills

Data Acquisition
Data Analysis
- Frequentist and Bayesian statistics
- Machine Learning
- Cognitive Modelling
Programming
- Matlab
- R
- Python
- Shell Scripting

Publications

AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science

Brodeur, A., Valenta, D., Marcoci, A., Aparicio, J. P., Mikola, D., Barbarioli, B., Alexander, R., Deer, L., Stafford, T., Vilhuber, L., Bensch, G., Motoki, F., Abdelhady, M., Abdelmoula, Y., Baki, G. A., Aguirre, T., Aiyer, S., Akhtar, S., Akhtar, F., … Zozoungbo, C. (2026). AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(22), e2524747123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524747123

Impulsivity Enhances Random Exploration and Boosts Performance in Loss but not Gain Contexts

Meng, L., Mandali, A., & Toutounji, H. (2026). Impulsivity Enhances Random Exploration and Boosts Performance in Loss but not Gain Contexts [Conference abstract]. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 54(Suppl 1), S327–S328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-025-00915-4

Teaching

Service and leadership

Chairman, Debate Society, Beijing Technology and Business University, 2019 - 2020

Lingyu Meng

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