{"id":949,"date":"2024-04-01T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/memory-optimization-lab\/?page_id=949"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:30:26","slug":"lab-news-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/memory-optimization-lab\/lab-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>March, 2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our graduate student <\/span>Si Ma<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for publishing her paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/fulltext\/2027-43922-001.pdf\">Psychological Review<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>October, 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our graduate student Nikolaus Salvatore<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for publishing his paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44271-025-00322-6\">Communications Psychology<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>July, 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our grad students Si Ma <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Hemali Angne for being awarded a\u00a0Student Travel Grant and the Graduate Student Diversity Award, respectively, to present their work at CogSci 2025!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>May, 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Come see us at MathPsych 2025 and CogSci 2025!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>April, 2025<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our undergrad student\u00a0<\/span>Joe Butta<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for being awarded the Cooper Research Fellowship for supporting his continuation of research over the summer!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>November, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are co-organizing the MathPsych Satellite Meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/mathpsych.org\/conference\/17\/\">&#8220;Memory in the Wild&#8221;<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychonomic.org\/page\/2024annualmeeting\">2024 meeting of the Psychonomic Society<\/a>. We will bring together researchers to share perspectives on different experimental paradigms, modeling approaches, and challenges of studying human memory in scenarios that resemble real-world and naturalistic settings. Please come join us!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>November, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our recent work funded by the National Science Foundation has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-78517-w\">Scientific Reports<\/a>, led by our graduate student Hemali Angne!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>November, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Qiong Zhang gave a talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium at Indiana University Bloomington and a talk at the Cognitive and Mathematical &amp; Computational Psychology Colloquium at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>October, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Qiong Zhang gave a seminar talk on Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Columbia University and a colloquium talk at the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>September, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our graduate student <\/span>Si Ma<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for publishing her first paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/qiongzhang.github.io\/MaPopovZhang2024.pdf\">Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>September, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our collaborating graduate student Zihao Xu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for publishing his first journal paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s42113-024-00222-8?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=oa_20240927&amp;utm_content=10.1007\/s42113-024-00222-8\">Computational Brain &amp; Behavior<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>June, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Come see us at MathPsych 2024 and CogSci 2024!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>May, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our latest research has been featured on Rutgers Today &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/news\/rutgers-researchers-develop-reminder-system-enhance-memory-recall?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=rutgerstoday&amp;utm_content=Research%20%26amp%3B%20Innovation\">Rutgers Researchers Develop Reminder System to Enhance Memory Recall<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>May, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our postdoc fellow Carol He for landing a job at Meta<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>April, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to our undergrad student\u00a0<\/span>Tej Shah<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for winning the Magidson Award from the Computer Science Department and for being featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/news\/after-developing-brooklyn-nets-fan-site-senior-sees-his-future-ai\">Rutgers&#8217; senior spotlight<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>March, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Qiong Zhang gave a Research Seminar talk and a guest lecture at the Psychology Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>January, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Our recent work funded by the National Science Foundation has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/qiongzhang.github.io\/Cornell2024.pdf\">Psychological Science<\/a>, led by our graduate student Charlie Cornell!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>December, 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our graduate student Hemali Angne for being selected for the NSF-funded National Research Traineeship at Rutgers Robotics!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>September, 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Qiong Zhang<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was selected as part of the <\/span>2023 Fall Class of Fellows<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the Psychonomic Society!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>July, 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Our research lab was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study how our memory interacts with cues in the environment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March, 2026 Congratulations to our graduate student Si Ma for publishing her paper in Psychological Review! 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