Kun CHEN

About Me

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student at the Affective, Neuroscience, and Decision-making Lab (ANDLab) at University of Macau (UM). Prior to this, I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). My research focuses on

1. Investigating how different forms of knowledge are encoded and retrieved in the human brain, and understanding how these representations influence our behavior.
2. Building on above foundation, I extend my inquiry to the representation of emotions. Utilizing computational modeling and neural recording techniques, I explore how emotions are represented and processed in the brain, and how they shape social decisions.
3. Building more human-like natural language processing (NLP) systems that exhibit advanced social reasoning and emotional intelligence, moving beyond purely statistical models to approach human-like understanding of language.

Currently, I am working on a project investigating the interaction between emotion representation and social decision-making.

Research Interests

• Knowledge Representation & Utilization
• Social Decision-Making
• Natural Language Processing

Publications

# denotes equal contribution

• Zhang, H.^#, Chen, K.^#, Bao, J., & Wu, H. (2023). Oxytocin enhances the triangular association among behavioral performance, resting state, and task-state functional connectivity. Human Brain Mapping, 44(17), 6074–6089. [DOI] [Code]

• Chen, K., Wang, R., Huang, J., Gao, F., Yuan, Z., Qi, Y., & Wu, H. (2022). A resource for assessing dynamic binary choices in the adult brain using EEG and mouse-tracking. Scientific Data, 9(1), 416. [DOI] [Code] [Data]