CV

You can download my one-page CV here.

Employment

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2018-present

Education

• Dual Ph.D in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington, 2018
• M.S. in Computer Science, Indiana University Bloomington, 2012
• B.E. in Software Engineering, Nanjing University, 2009

Publications

• Zettersten, M., Yurovsky, D., Xu, T. L., Uner, S., Tsui, A., Schneider, R. M., … & Frank, M. C. (2022). Peekbank: An open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data of children’s word recognition. in press. [preprint]
• Zettersten, M., Bergey, C. A., Bhatt, N. S., Boyce, V., Braginsky, M., Carstensen, A., … & Frank, M. C. (2021). Peekbank: Exploring children’s word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43). [paper]
• Xu T. L., de Barbaro K., Abney D.H. and Cox R.F.A. (2020). Finding Structure in Time: Visualizing and Analyzing Behavioral Time Series. Frontiers In Psychology. 11:1457. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01457. [paper] [github toolbox]
• Yuan, L., Xu, T. L., Yu, C. & Smith, L. B. (2019). Sustained Visual Attention is More Than Seeing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 324-336. [paper]

• Slone, L.K., Abney, D.H., Borjon, J.I., Chen, C.H., Franchak, J.M., Pearcy, D., Suarez-Rivera, C., Xu, T. L., Zhang, Y., Smith, L.B. and Yu, C. (2018).Gaze in Action: Head-mounted Eye Tracking of Children’s Dynamic Visual Attention During Naturalistic Behavior. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (141), e58496. [paper]

• Xu, T. L., Abney, D.H. & Yu, C. (2017). Discovering Multicausality in the Development of Coordinated Behavior. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, England, UK: Cognitive Science Society. [paper] github toolbox]
• Yuan, L., Xu, T. L., Yu, C. & Smith, L.B. Seeing Is Not Enough for Sustained Visual Attention. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, England, UK: Cognitive Science Society. [paper]
• Xu, T. & Yu, C. (2016). Quantifying Joint Activities using Cross-Recurrance Block Representation. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1997-2002). Philadelphia, PA: Cognitive Science Society. [paper] [talk slides] [github toolbox] [video1] [video2]
• Xu, T. L., Zhang, H., and Yu, C. (2016). See You See Me: the Role of Eye Contact in Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 6(1), 2. doi: 10.1145/2882970. [paper] [video]
• Yu, C., Xu, T., Zhong, Y., and Zhang, H. (2014). Learning to Interact and Interacting to Learn: Active Statistical Learning in Human-Robot Interaction. In 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), (pp. 684-691). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889698. [paper]
• Xu, T. Zhang, H. & Yu, C. (2013). Cooperative Gazing Behaviors in Human Multi-Robot Interaction. Interaction Studies, 14(3), 390-418. doi: 10.1075/is.14.3.05xu [paper] [video]
• Yu, C., Yurovsky, D. & Xu, T. L. (2012). Visual Data Mining: An Exploratory Approach to Analyzing Temporal Patterns of Eye Movements. Infancy, 17(1), 33-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00095.x [paper]
• Xu, T., Yu, C. & Smith, L.B. (2011). It’s the Child’s Body: The Role of Toddler and Parent in Selecting Toddler’s Visual Experience. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (Vol. 2, pp. 1-6). IEEE. [paper]

Talks and Organized Workshops

• Xu, T. L. (March 2019). Discovering Temporal Dependency and Directional Influence among Multimodal Behavioral Variables with Granger Causality. The 2019 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• Xu, T. L., de Barbaro, K. & Cox, R.F.A. (July 2018). Finding Structure in Time. The 21st International Congress of Infant Studies. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Xu, T. L., Abney, D.H. Smith, L.B. & Yu, C. (July 2018). New Technology Leads to New Discoveries: A Case Study of Using Computational Algorithms to Understand Parent-Infant Interaction. The 21st International Congress of Infant Studies. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Xu, T. L., Abney, D.H. & Yu, C. (July 2017). Discovering Multicausality in the Development of Coordinated Behavior. The 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, England, UK.
• Xu, T. L., (May 2017) Investigating Social Contingencies and Temporal Patterns in Multimodal Coordinated Behaviors. Cognitive Interaction Technology Workshop. Bloomington, IN, USA.
• Xu, T. L. & Yu, C. (August 2016). Quantifying Joint Activities using Cross Recurrence Block Representation. The 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Teaching

• Research Mentor, P397 Supervised Research in Psychology, Fall 2018 to Fall 2019
• Guest Lecturer, P657 Machine Learning in Cognitive Science, Spring 2017
• Associate Instructor, B649 Cloud Computing, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
• Associate Instructor, B555 Machine Learning, Spring 2013
• Associate Instructor, B461 Database Concepts, Spring 2012
• Associate Instructor, B565 Data Mining, Spring 2011
• Associate Instructor, A348/B548 Mastering the World Wide Web, Spring 2010
• Associate Instructor, A201 Introduction to Programming in Python, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2009 All courses were provided at Indiana University Bloomington

Honors and Awards

• Cognitive Science Outstanding Dissertation Award, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S. 2020
• Outstanding Research Award, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S. 2019
• The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Graduate Student Travel Award, Philadelphia, PA, U.S. 2018
• The IUB Provost’s Travel Award for Women in Science, Bloomington, IN, U.S. 2017
• The Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation Student Travel Award, London, England, U.K. 2017
• The Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation Student Travel Award, Philadelphia, PA, U.S. 2016
• Best Poster Award, Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge, England, U.K. 2013
• Outstanding Graduates, Nanjing University (Top 5% Students), Nanjing, China 2009
• 1st Place, 2008 Programming Competition, Software Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2008

Professional Service

Reviewer for

• Scientific Reports
• Child Development
• Cognitive Science
• Transactions on Affective Computing
• Complexity
• Cognitive Science Society 2019-2021
• The European Conference on Computer Vision, 2018
• International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017
• Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2016-2017, 2022