native of Indonesia, Stella received her B.A. from Harvard University in 2004, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2010. Prior to moving to Tsinghua, she was a tenured associate professor at Swarthmore College.

Stella researches the Relational Mind: how cognitive systems learn relations and structures of the world. Using behavioral data from young human children and great apes, Stella’s work has discovered tantalizing similarities and differences between humans’ and other animals’ relational cognition. Eventually, her aim is to chart the precise learning algorithms that any mind uses to abstract relations. Having lived in six countries on all hemispheres, Stella holds a special interests in how relational reasoning is influenced by and influences language, culture, and social interactions.

In her spare time, Stella loves to scale mountains and languages—she currently speaks 5 languages

Zhen Wu is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Department of Psychology. She received her B.A. from Peking University in 2009, and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Iowa in 2015. She is now the director of the Social Cognitive Development Lab, and the research lead at Tsinghua University Lifelong Learning Lab. She is also the Tang Scholar at Tsinghua University...

Ying Wang is an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, Department of Psychology. Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014. She has been working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at University of Michigan for two years.Her main research interest lies in the field of developmental psychology, with an empha...

Honghong Bai is currently a post-doctoral researcher in collaboration with Prof. Stella Christie at Child Cognition Center, Tsinghua Lab of Brain and Intelligence. Dr. Bai received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Southern China Normal University in 2011. After working as a network manager and IT supporter for a year, Dr. Bai started her master’s study in Developm...

Wenjia Tan graduated from the Department of Psychology at Wuhan University. She used to be a research intern in Lifelong Learning Lab of Tsinghua University. Her current interests are: 1.Will the social presence influence different age children's behavior in the same way? 2. How a baby constructs explanations that can be generalized to adapt to the complexity in the real world. 3. What we can learn from toddlers’ learning pattern in order to build an actively learning AI. She also enjoys Suzhou Comments Bullet and Hiking.