Yibei Chen

Yibei recently defended her dissertation at the Department of Communication, UCSB (March, 2023). Her research is a unique blend of cognitive neuroscience, media effects, and computational methods. Yibei primarily focuses on exploring how the human brain processes narratives, such as stories and movies, at a fine-grained level. Her work delves into the brain’s accumulation of information to form understandings, the role of pre-existing beliefs in shaping these understandings, and the differentiation that occurs as narratives evolve.

Aside from her primary research, Yibei is a strong advocate for open science and the development of reproducible, re-executable neuroimaging analytical pipelines. As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributor in 2022, Yibei worked on converting existing scientific workflows to Pydra, a dataflow engine, and contributed to the Pydra Tutorial. Further showcasing her commitment to this cause, Yibei is a ReproNim/INCF Training Fellow for 2022-2023, promoting the principles of open science and reproducibility in neuroimaging research.