Alan L. F. LEE Department of Applied Psychology Room 227, Dorothy Y. L. Wong Building Lingnan University Tuen Mun, Hong Kong Phone: +852 2616 7419 Email: ALANLEE@LN.EDU.HK ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2016 present Assistant professor Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong 2014 2015 Assistant professor Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 2013 2014 Postdoctoral researcher École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, France [Advisor: Pascal Mamassian] EDUCATION 2008 2013 Ph.D. (2013) and M.A. (2010) in Psychology (Computational Cognition) University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA [Advisor: Hongjing Lu] 2001 2005 Bachelor of Cognitive Science (First Class Honours) The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong [Advisor: Anthony Hayes] RESEARCH INTERESTS Areas: perceptual neuroscience, learning & adaptation, metacognition, vision Methods: computational modeling, neuroimaging, psychophysics TEACHING EXPERIENCE At NTU as instructor: Biological psychology, Fundamentals of social sciences research (methods and statistics) At UCLA as teaching assistant: Neural networks, Computational models for cognitive science, Statistical methods for behavioral research (graduate level), Research methods in psychology, Sensation and perception, Cognitive psychology Last Update: Jan 4, 2016 Page 1 of 5
HONORS & AWARDS 2014 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award (2014), Psychonomics Society 2012 2013 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA 2012 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award for the 2012 Annual VSS Meeting 2009 2011 Travel Award for Graduate Students, Psychology Department, UCLA 2009 Excellence in Research Award, Psychology Department, UCLA 2008 2009 Distinguished University Fellowship, UCLA 2004 & 2005 Starr Foundation Scholarship (covers all tuition fees) 2004 & 2002 Dean s Honour List, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU 2002 Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for University Students 2001 Young Leaders for Tomorrow s Community Scholarship, HKU 2001 Rev. Joseph Carra Education Fund Scholarship PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 2015 Program chair and Organizing committee Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Singapore 2014-2015 Ad-hoc reviewer for PLoS Computational Biology, Journal of Vision, Consciousness and Cognition, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance GRANT SUPPORT Nov 2014 Oct 2017 Start-up grant, Nanyang Technological University Title: Adaptation Mechanisms of the Hierarchical Sensory System: A Psychophysical and Computational Investigation Amount: 35,000 SGD or around 192,000 HKD Jan 2016 Dec 2018 RGC Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), UGC/FDS23/H04/15, as Co-Investigator (Principal investigator: Dr Louis CHAN) Title: "Target not found": Explaining negative responses in visual search tasks Amount: 838,879 HKD Last Update: Jan 4, 2016 Page 2 of 5
PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed research articles Lee, A. L. F., & Lu, H. (2014) Global motion aftereffect does not depend on awareness of the adapting motion direction. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76(3), 766-779. Awarded the Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award (see HONORS & AWARDS). Lee, A. L. F., & Lu, H. (2012). Two forms of aftereffects induced by transparent motion reveal multilevel adaptation. Journal of Vision, 12(4):3, 1 13. Lee, A. L. F., & Lu, H. (2010). A comparison of global motion perception using a multiple-aperture stimulus. Journal of Vision, 10(4):9, 1-16. Conference proceeding papers Lu, H., Lin, T., Lee, A. L. F., Vese, L., & Yuille, A. (2010). Functional form of motion priors in human motion perception. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23, 1495-1503. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Wu, S., Lu, H., Lee, A., & Yuille A. "Motion integration using competitive priors", In: Statistical and Geometrical Approaches to Visual Motion Analysis, Cremers, D., Rosenhahn, B., Yuille, A.L., & Schmidt, F.R. (Eds.), Springer, 5604:1-26 (2009). Manuscripts in preparation Lee, A. L. F., de Gardelle, V., & Mamassian, P. Integration of perceptual and metacognitive evidence in global confidence judgments. Lee, A. L. F., & Lu, H. A multilayer-network model for hierarchical motion adaptation. Lee, A. L. F., & Lu, H. Unsupervised learning of complex visual chunks via statistical learning. Lee, A. L. F., & Lu, H. The contribution of local and global motion adaptation to the repulsive motion aftereffect. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (*Talk presentations) 1. *Lee, A. L. F., de Gardelle, V., & Mamassian, P. (2015). Global confidence judgments across multiple perceptual decisions. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, Singapore. 2. Lee, A. L. F., de Gardelle, V., & Mamassian, P. (2015). Computing global confidence: Psychophysical evidence for an integration mechanism. VSS, St. Pete Beach, Florida. 3. Lee, A. L. F., de Gardelle, V., & Mamassian, P. (2014). Extracting the global confidence across multiple trials of a visual task. VSS, St. Pete Beach, Florida. 4. *Lee, A. L. F., Lu, H. (2013). Propagation of local adaptation is insufficient to generate repulsive motion aftereffects. VSS, Naples, Florida. 5. *Lu, H., Lee, A. L. F. (2013). Inferring "hidden" parts by learning hierarchical representations of objects. VSS, Naples, Florida. Last Update: Jan 4, 2016 Page 3 of 5
6. *Lee, A. L. F., Lu, H. (2012). Adapting to imperceptible multidirectional motion yields perceptible aftereffects: A psychophysical and computational investigation. VSS, Naples, Florida. 7. *Lee, A. L. F., Lu, H. (2011). A new form of motion aftereffect in transparent motion adaptation. VSS, Naples, Florida. 8. *Lu, H., Lin, T., Lee, A. L. F., Vese, L., & Yuille, A. (2010). Recovering the functional form of the slowand-smooth prior in global motion perception. VSS, Naples, Florida. 9. Lee, A. L. F. & Lu, H. (2010). Phantom motion aftereffect using multiple aperture stimuli: A dynamic Bayesian model. VSS, Naples, Florida. 10. Lu, H., Lee, A., & Keane, B. P. (2009). Spatial pattern analysis in biological motion. VSS, Naples, Florida. 11. Lee, A. & Lu, H. (2009). A comparison of motion integration for optic flow components. VSS, Naples, Florida. 12. Lee, A. L., Yuille, A., & Lu, H. (2008). Superior perception of circular/radial than translational motion cannot be explained by generic priors. VSS, Naples, Florida. 13. *Lee, A. L., Yuille, A., & Lu, H. (2008). Superior perception of circular/radial over translational motion cannot be explained by generic priors. Hong Kong Vision Meeting, Hong Kong. INVITED TALKS 2014 Sep 12 Laboratoire Systèmes Perceptifs, ENS, Paris, France 2014 Mar 25 Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2014 Feb 25 Zebrafish Neuroethology Lab., Département de Biologie, ENS, Paris, France 2013 Nov 14 Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (Vision group), Paris, France 2013 Apr 26 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK 2013 Apr 12 RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan 2013 Apr 10 Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International, Kyoto, Japan 2013 Feb 22 Cognitive Forum, Department of Psychology, UCLA 2012 Jun 7 Computational Neuroscience Affinity Group, UCLA 2012 Aug 28 Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2010 Sep 16 Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong Last Update: Jan 4, 2016 Page 4 of 5
OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2012 2013 Honorary fellow, Vision Laboratory Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2012 Jul Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA 2011 Jun Visiting scholar, Vision Laboratory Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES At the Division of Psychology, NTU 2014-present Undergraduate committee (1 st -year coordinator) International exchange coordinator Scholarship interview committee NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2005 Nov 2007 Jun Management Trainee, HSBC (Hong Kong) LANGUAGES & SKILLS Cantonese (native), English and Mandarin (fluent), Japanese (conversational), French (basic) Programming languages and computer software: MATLAB, C++, SPSS, R Last Update: Jan 4, 2016 Page 5 of 5