People
Principal Investigator
Ph.D., Brown University
Professor in Cognitive Psychology, UCLA.
Office: Franz Hall 7619 Phone: (310) 267-4683 Email: zili@psych.ucla.edu
Zili Liu studies visual perception — how people see and why they see the way they do. He joined UCLA’s Psychology Department in 2001. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and his M.S. in Applied Mathematics, both from Brown University. He received his B.Sc. in Physics, from Beijing (Peking) University, China. He supports Rural China Education Foundation (http://www.ruralchina.org/).
Graduate Students
Chéla Willey
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, UCLA
M.A., Experimental Psychology, CSUSM
B.A., Psychology and Criminology & Justice Studies, CSUSM, magna cum laude
Email: cwilley@ucla.edu
Andrew Silva
Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, UCLA
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.A., Psychology, UC Irvine, magna cum laude
M.A., Psychology, UCLA
Email: aesilva@ucla.edu
Yang Zen Xing
Doctoral Student, Cognitive Psychology {Computational Cognition Specialization}
B.A., Psychology, UCLA
Email: yangxing92@gmail.com
Lucy Cui
Doctoral Student, Cognitive Psychology, UCLA
Email: Lucy.cui@ucla.edu
Lab Manager
Kinneret Gordon
Undergraduate Student, Cognitive Science UCLA
Email: kinneretgordon@gmail.com
Research Assistants
*= indicate undergraduates who are doing an independent project under the mentorship of Zili Liu, Ph.D., and graduate students
*Thomas Botch
*Changrui Li
Angelica Gomez
Kinneret Gordon
Mollie Zhang
Lab Alumni
Hongjing Lu, Associate Professor, UCLA (PhD 2006).
Bas Rokers, Assist Prof, Univ Wisconsin Madison (PhD 2006).
Ben Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Univ Auckland, NZ (Postdoc, 04 – 06).
Xiaoyang Yang, Researcher, Blizzard Entertainment, (PhD 2012).
Sebastian Christopher Waz, Cognitive Science with Specialization in Computing, UCLA (BS 2016).
Abdul Deeb, UCLA (BS).
Tabitha Safari, Lab Manager, UCLA.
Rachel Ho, Lab Manager, UCLA.
Tea Asatiani Soham Desai
Angelica Gomez Gagan Grewal
Al Gu *Tiffany Hwang
Melissa Lee Phoebe Liang
Jake Lorimer Haleh Matinrad
Rofida Rakha Chris Robinson
Ryan Sabillo Skyler Rothganger
Chitvan Saggu Kinshuk Sen
Lizeth Sotelo Kenneth Tran
Daniel Tsiu Weixuan Wu
Amir Yekani