Congratulations to Dr. Peng Yingying, who had successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on 9 Jan 2026 and was conferred the PhD degree.

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Congratulations to Dr. Wang Jing, who had successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on 18 Dec 2025 and was conferred the PhD degree.

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Professor Ping Li Publishes Op-Ed in Sing Tao Daily on 19th December 2025: “Brain-like AI: Breakthrough or Crisis?” 「類腦AI來臨：突破或危機？」

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Changjiang Gao, Zhengwu Ma, Jiajun Chen, Ping Li, Shujian Huang & Jixing Li published a paper ‘Increasing alignment of large language models with language processing in the human brain’ in Nature Computational Science.

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Prof. Johan MÅRTENSSON delivered a Distinguished Lecture in Humanities at PolyU on 12th Sept. He visited BLC Lab on 13th Sep 2025.

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Chanyuan Gu, Yingying Peng & Ping Li published a paper ‘Advances in bilingualism as a dynamic process: 30 years of exploration in bilingual mind and brain’ in Journal of Neurolinguistics.

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Chanyuan Gu, Samuel A. Nastase, Zaid Zada & Ping Li published a paper ‘Reading comprehension in L1 and L2 readers: neurocomputational mechanisms revealed through large language models’ in npj Sci. Learn.

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Congratulations to Ms Peng Yingying, for her outstanding performance at the PolyU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition held on 2 July 2025.

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Mingjun Zhai has been awarded GRF grant for the project titled “Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences in taxonomic and thematic systems” (Co-Investigators: Prof. Ping Li and Dr. Sam Nastase)

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The implications of the Nature Human Behaviour paper attracted much media attention, including Hong Kong Economic Journal, Yahoo news, Sina HK, Macau Business, Taiwan Business News, Viet Nam News,  Tech Xplore, Mirage News, ScienMag, Newswise, Health Medicine Network, and others.

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