Janet H. Hsiao

Dr. Janet H. Hsiao
Associate Professor
University of Hong Kong

Dr. Janet H. Hsiao

BSc NTU, MSc SFU, PhD Edinburgh

Head & Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Hong Kong

Office: Room 623, 6/F Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus
Phone: +852 3917 4874
Email: jhsiao at hku dot hk

Bio

Dr. Janet Hsiao is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and worked with Prof. Gary Cottrell. She received the Ph.D. degree in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh in 2006, the M.Sc. degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 2002, and the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from National Taiwan University in 1999.

Research Interests [more]

Cognitive Science, Computational Modeling, Eye Movement analysis with Hidden Markov Models (EMHMM), Visual Cognition, Learning, Perceptual Expertise, Face Recognition, Reading, Explainable AI.

Education

University of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom
Ph.D., Informatics, 2006.
Simon Fraser University, Canada
M.Sc., Computing Science, 2002.
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
B.S., Computer Science & Information Engineering, 1999.

Positions and Employments

Steering Committee Member, Institute of Data Science, University of Hong Kong, Aug 2022 - present
Head, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, Oct. 2020 - present
Principal Investigator, The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Sept. 2019 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, 2015 - present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, 2009 - 2014.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2005 - 2008.

Editorships and Services

Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Psychology, Nov. 2022 - now
Governing Board Member, Cognitive Science Soceity, Aug 2022 - Aug 2028
Section Editor, Cognition, June 2021 - now
Associate Editor, Cognitive Science, July 2018 - Dec. 2022
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE, Jan 2014 - Jan 2021
Program Committee Member, Annual Meetings of Cognitive Science Society, 2016-now

Awards and Honors

Fellow, the Cognitive Science Societiy, 2023
Early Career Award, the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, 2012
Best Language Modeling Paper Prize, the Twenty Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, 2006.
CCK Fellowships for Ph.D. Dissertations, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan, 2005.
2nd prize, Informatics Jamboree poster competition, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2005.
Overseas Research Student scholarship, British Council, UK, 2002-2005.
Informatics studentship, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2002-2005.
Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2001.
Five Presidential Awards in succession (Top 5% in class), National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1996-1999.
Scholarship from Rotary Club, Taiwan, 1996.