🇨🇳 from Xiangyang, Hubei, China

📬 chengcheng.wang@my.cityu.edu.hk

🆔 0009-0000-6974-1358

📍Hong Kong

✔️ Mandarin/English/ Japanese

ABOUT ME

🔵 I am a now second-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at the LAnguages, Machines & Brains (LAMB) Lab, City University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Jixing Li.

🔵 My research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of
computational neurolinguistics that combines linguistics, neuroscience, and computer science to explore how the human brain and large language models process language. I am particularly interested in computational simulations of language disorders in the impaired brain.

MY ACADEMIC JOURNEY

(You can download my CV here 👇🏻)

 🔵 Education

• Sep 2023 - present | Ph.D.Student in Linguistics, CityU | Supervised by Prof. Jixing Li

• Sep 2022 - Oct 2023 | M.A. Language Studies, CityU | Supervised by Prof. Jixing Li

• July 2023 | Computational Neuroscience - 2023 | Neuromatch: Beaverton, US

• Sep 2017 - July 2021 | B.A. Japanese, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

• Mar - Apr 2019 | Exchange student & intern | Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

🔵 Publications

• Wang, C., Fan, Z., Han, Z., Bi, Y., & Li, J. (2025). Emergent modularity in large language models: Insights from aphasia simulations. bioRxiv, 2025-02.

• Momenian, M., Ma, Z., Wu, S., Wang, C., Vaghe, M., Hale, J., Brennan, J., Meyer, L., & Li, J. Le Petit Prince Hong Kong (LPPHK): Naturalistic fMRI and EEG data from older Cantonese speakers. Sci Data 11, 992 (2024). [OpenNeuro]

🔵 Conferences

• Wang C., Fan, Z., Han, Z., Bi, Y., Li, J. (2024) Functional specificity in multimodal large language models and the human brain. Poster at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting (SNL 2024). Brisbane, Australia, Oct 24-26, 2024. (Recipient of Trainee Scholarship Award)

• Ma Z., Wang, C., & Li, J. (2023) Syntactic information drives language models’ alignment with human comprehension processes. Oral presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP Asia), Hong Kong, December 1-3, 2023.

WISH YOU A WONDERFUL SNAKE YEAR!