EDUCATION
2009 - 2010 Research Fellow, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, UCSF
2007 - 2009 Postdoc, Brain Health Center, UT Dallas
2001 - 2007 PhD., Linguisitcs, UC Berekeley
1998 - 2001 M.A., Linguistics, National Taiwan University
1994 - 1998 B.A., Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University
EMPLOYMENT
2016/11 - present Adjunct Associate Professor of the Graduate Institute of Information System and Application at National Tsing Hua University
2014/07 - present Director of Center for Cognition and Mind Sciences
2014/02 -2017/07 Division Chief, Center for Teaching and Learning Development
2013/08 - present Associate Professor of the Department of Languages and Literature at National Tsing Hua University
2011/01 - 2013/07 Assistant Professor of the Department of Languages and Literature at National Tsing Hua University
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
(1) Neural substrates for semantic and phonetic processing in aging and injured brains:
Language pathways in patients with traumatic brain injuries and aphasia
Neural plasticity after therapy
The relationship of structural integrity with language processing in elders
(2) Relationship of neuronal deficits and behavior in aging and diseased brains
Association of memory and vocabulary with brain structure in patients
Functional connectome of the brain with malformations