Background:

Ren is a doctoral student in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience program working with Yuan Chang Leong. They received a B.S. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science with an emphasis in Philosophy of Mind from the University of Arizona in 2021. Following graduation, they worked as the lab manager of Dr. Leong’s lab at the University of Chicago.

Research Interests:

Ren is broadly interested in how people perceive, reason about, and interact with their environments, including how their judgments about physical events or scenes might be influenced by uncertainty, risk, or reward.