Alumni
Wanzhi “Libby” Lyu
Former Research Assistant
Libby Lyu received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Iowa, where she worked with Drs. Eliot Hazeltine and Nicholas Trapp, and her M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, where she worked with Dr. Monica Rosenberg. Before joining the Feilong Lab at the University of South Carolina, she worked as a research assistant at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Libby is broadly interested in how individual differences in brain function support cognition and behavior. She is particularly interested in how these differences vary across contexts and emotional states, and how the brain flexibly supports cognitive processes under different conditions. She is now a graduate student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program at The Ohio State University, working with Dr. David Osher in the Cognition and Brain Circuitry Laboratory.
Mengxin “AvA” Ran
Former Lab Manager
AvA Ran received her B.S. in Psychology from The Ohio State University in 2024, where she worked with Prof. Julie Golomb. Before joining the Feilong Lab at the University of South Carolina, she worked as a lab manager in Prof. Oriel FeldmanHall’s Lab at Brown University. AvA is broadly interested in how the human brain represents and reconstructs narrative structure, and how shared and idiosyncratic patterns can be modeled computationally. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying narrative understanding and individual differences.