Jane Yang (杨怿恬)

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I’m a second-year Ph.D. student in Experimental Psychology at UC San Diego in the Visual Learning Lab, advised by Bria Long. I received my B.S. in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, where I specialized in Machine Learning & Neural Computation and minored in Computer Science.

My research focuses on egocentric vision, visual representation learning, and perception and interaction in naturalistic environments. I study how infants learn from what they see in daily life—using large-scale egocentric video (e.g., the BabyView dataset), computer vision (object detection, CLIP, DINO), and behavioral experiments to quantify naturalistic visual experience and its link to early concept development. I’m interested in making developmental psychology more data-driven and ecologically valid, and in using multimodal and AI tools to study human learning at scale.

beyond research

Outside of research, I enjoy CrossFit, gardening, cooking, and forays and tidepooling. I also have a bunny named Mochi, a five-year-old rescue from Austin.

A few photos:

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