Regular biography
Jingyuan Sun (J) is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. His research focuses on natural language processing and text mining, with an emphasis on the intersection of large-scale AI systems and human brain alignment. He explores how AI can support patients with neuro-degenerative diseases through brain-computer interfaces and foundation models for healthcare. Sun's work involves neuro-imaging data from fMRI, EEG, and MEG, and he publishes in top-tier AI conferences and journals. Prior to joining The University of Manchester, he was a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and worked as a Senior R&D engineer at Baidu.
Scholar-generated biography
Jingyuan Sun is an Assistant Professor at The University of Manchester, specializing in neural encoding and decoding, brain machine interface, and large language models. Their research focuses on decoding brain activities to reconstruct language, images, and videos, leveraging distributed representations and advanced machine learning techniques. Sun's work includes developing frameworks for semantic decoding from non-invasive brain recordings and exploring the alignment between human brain representations and artificial language models. They also contribute to multi-task approaches for visual and language decoding, emphasizing the integration of computational models with empirical studies in neuroscience and linguistics.