Lean Luo, PhD
leluo@ucdavis.edu
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher affiliated with the Morgan Computational Psycholinguistics Lab in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. In June 2025, I obtained my PhD degree from Tsinghua University.
I study the mechanisms underlying language and cognition in different minds, from infants to adults (and now extending to language models as well), with the overarching goal of characterizing the fundamental units and computations that support different cognitive processes.
My research employs both experimental and computational methods.
News
| Nov 17, 2025 | I’m awarded the CogSci x Gorilla Grant 2025! |
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| Nov 15, 2025 | I presented my work at BUCLD50 (Luo et al.) and CAMP8 (Luo & Momma)! |
| Oct 01, 2025 | Excited to announce that I’ve started a postdoctoral position at UC Davis! |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Our BUCLD49 proceedings paper is now available online! |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Check out our new paper online published in Journal of Child Language! |