Jing

XU

Zoe (Jing) Xu is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science. Her research focuses on understanding human visual perception and attention, through the lens of visual search. She predicts how people search for objects in visual environments and uses search tasks to understand individual and group differences in visual experience (e.g., autistic vs. non-autistic individuals, action video gamers vs. non-gamers). Her methodologies include behavioral psychophysics, eye-tracking, computational modeling, and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).

Prior to joining HKUST, Zoe was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and M.S. degrees in Psychology and Advertising from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a B.A. in Advertising from Wuhan University, and a double-major B.S. from Central China Normal University.