Dr Zhaoping Li

Department of Psychology, UCL
Email: z.li@ucl.ac.uk
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Zhaoping Li obtained her B.S. in Physics in 1984 from Fudan University, Shanghai, and her PhD. in Physics in 1989 from California Institute of Technology. She was a postdoctoral researcher in Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois USA, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey, USA and Rockefeller University in New York, USA; an Assistant professor in computer science in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and was a visiting scientist at various academic institutions. Dr Li joined the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in 1998 and the Dept. of Psychology at UCL in 2001. Her research experience throughout the years ranges from areas in high-energy physics to neurophysiology and marine biology.
Dr Li is interested in understanding computation in biological systems and aims to develop theories from first principles, and supplement theoretical approaches with modelling studies. The theories and the models make non-trivial predictions that can connect with existing experimental data and motivate new and feasible experimental explorations. In particular, her current interests are:

• Visual Attention.
• Visual and olfactory object segmentation and recognition.
• Computations by non-linear neural dynamics.
• Sensory signal processing and coding.