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Siyi Gong [sɨ i ɡʊŋ] is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Communication Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is affiliated with the Visual Intelligence Lab.

Siyi is interested in exploring the cognitive underpinnings underlying cooperation, communication, and innovation. Her recent project involves lab experimentation and statistical modeling to explore how cognitive, motivational, and social mechanisms contribute to cumulative improvements in cultural innovation. Additionally, Siyi is interested in integrating tools like Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing into her studies to examine the dynamic interplay between machine and human intelligence.

Keywords: Cultural innovation; Communicative Intention; Shared Intentionality

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Publications

Gong, S., Jiang, K., Li, J., Karadanaian, M., Meng, Z., Gao, T.

Communicating through Acting: The Role of Contextual Affordance in Intuitive Mimetic Gestural Communication.

Submitted.

Li, Zhen., Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhou, J., Shen, M., Gao, T.

Perceptual Gestalt as Focal Point in the Strategy of Conflicts.

Submitted.

Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhao, M., Zhou, J., Shen, M., Gao, T.

Joint Commitment in Human Cooperative Hunting through an “Imagined We”.

Submitted.

Stacy, S.*, Gong, S.*, Parab A., Zhao, M., Jiang, K., & Gao, T. (2023)

A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Modeling Cooperation and Communication.

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, e1631. [∗co-first author] DOI

Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2023)

Generative visual common sense: Testing analysis-by-synthesis on Mondrian-style image.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. DOI

Proceedings & Conferences

Gong, S., Tang, N., Zhao, M., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2024)

Joint Commitment in Human Cooperative Hunting through an “Imagined We”.

Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society 2024: Perception of Relations, Intuitive Physics, Florida, United States

Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhao, M., Gu, C., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2022)

Exploring an imagined “we” in human collective hunting: Joint commitment within shared intentionality [Talk]

In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Vol. 44, No. 44).

Li, Z., Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhou, J., Shen, M. & Gao, T. (2022, July 27-30).

Perceptual Grouping for War and Peace. [Flashtalk].

Cogsci 2022: Perception2, Toronto, Canada.

Tang, N., Gong, S., Zhao, M., Gu, C., Zhou, J., Shen, M., & Gao, T. (2022, June 27 - July 1).

Exploring an Imagined “We” in Collective Hunting: Joint Commitment within Shared Intentionality [Spotlight]

RSS 2022: Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots, New York City, United States.

Zhao, M., Gong, S., Stacy, S., & Gao, T. (2022, June 8-11).

Shared Agency Versus Sharing Rewards:On the Jointness of Multi-agent Cooperation Modeling.

RLDM 2022: RL as a Model of Agency, Rhode Island, United States.

Jiang, K., Gong, S., Jiang, B., Stacy, S., Sadaghdar, A., & Gao, T. (2022, June 8-11).

Tell Me What to Do: Reinforcement Learning Contributes to Modeling Human Communication but Is not All You Need.

RLDM 2022: RL as a Model of Agency, Rhode Island, United States.

Tang, N., Gong, S., Liao, Z., Xu, H., Zhou, J., Shen, M. & Gao, T. (2021).

Jointly Perceiving Physics and Mind: Motion, Force, and Intention [Talk].

In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43).

Talks

Gong, S.

Joint Commitment in Human Cooperative Hunting through an “Imagined We.”

Talk given at Vision Sciences Society, 2024. See video below.

Gong, S.

Exploring an imagined “we” in human collective hunting: Joint commitment within shared intentionality.

Talk given at CogForum, University of California, Los Angeles, 09/30/2023.

Gong, S.

Exploring an imagined “we” in human collective hunting: Joint commitment within shared intentionality.

Talk given at the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society, 2022.

Gong, S.

Exploring an Imagined “We” in Collective Hunting: Joint Commitment within Shared Intentionality.

Spotlight Talk given at RSS 2022: Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots, New York City, United States.

Projects

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Teaching Experience

Curriculum Vitae

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Updates

Siyi is working on a new project where she is interested in finding out the involvement of cognitive and social mechanisms in facilitating cultural innovation.

Siyi participated at Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS)-Beijing, 2024, where she learned ways to incorporate Large Language Models in her research. She was awarded an scholarship for outstanding presentation of group project “Revisiting the Role of Self-esteem in Eliciting Cognitive Dissonance Using Simulated LLM Agents.” Here is a picture of her presenting the group project.

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Fun facts

I am a black belt in Taekwondo who gets injured very easily.

I can speak Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese, and some Korean. Currently working on Duolingo Spanish :)