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Professor Hsiao, Janet Hui Wen 蕭惠文

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Professor Hsiao, Janet Hui Wen 蕭惠文

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Professor

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Also Cited As:
Hsiao, Janet HW
Hsiao, JH
Hsiao, J

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
1999National Taiwan UniversityB.Sc. Computer Science
2002Simon Fraser UniversityM.Sc. Computing Science
2006University of EdinburghPh.D. Cognitive Science
Biography

Janet Hsiao is a Professor in the Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, she was a Professor of Psychology at University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in Informatics from University of Edinburgh and was a postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Diego. She is best known for her research on learning and visual cognition, including face recognition, reading, and object detection and identification. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach, using methods and theories from artificial intelligence, experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience to study the human mind. In particular, she developed the Eye Movement analysis with Hidden Markov Models (EMHMM) method to quantify individual differences in eye movement pattern and consistency, which has revolutionized the use of eye movement data to understand cognition. She has also combined EMHMM with deep learning methods to understand the role of attention in human learning and its implications for explainable Artificial Intelligence research. She received the Best Language Modelling Paper Prize from the Cognitive Science Society in 2006 and the Early Career Award from the RGC Hong Kong in 2012. She is now a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and serves on the Governing Board. She is also Editor-in-Chief of British Journal of Psychology and an Associate Editor of Cognition.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2005-05-01CCK Fellowship Award For Phd Dissertations: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation For International Scholarly Exchange
Research Achievement
2012-12-01Early Career Award: Research Grant Council of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2006-08-01Best Language Modeling Paper Award: Cognitive Science Society
Research Achievement
QUE, Ying
ZHENG, Yueyuan
2022-07-01Best Full Paper Award (Nomination): IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
01/2003-presentMember & reviewerCognitive Science Society
01/2008-presentMemberAssociation for Psychological Science
01/2006-presentMemberVision Sciences Society
09/2015-presentProgram committee of the annual meeting 2016Cognitive Science Society
07/2018-presentSociety journal associate editorCognitive Science Society
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Perceptual expertise: face recognition, reading, music, drawing, etc.知覺專長: 臉孔識別,閱讀,繪畫等
Hemispheric asymmetry左右腦差異性
Cognitive psychology認知心理學
Chinese character recognition中文字識別
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Putonghua英語、普通話
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, Chinese英文、中文
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