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Teaching Experiences at The University of Chicago

  • Instructor, Language in Culture in the Technological Era (2025)        

  • Instructor, Mind, Brain, & Meaning in Buddhist Thoughts and Practices (2025)

  • Instructor, Cognitive Models (2025, 2024)

  • Instructor, Artificial Intelligence, Human Condition, Human Capacities (2024)

  • Instructor, Perspectives on Large Language Models: Computational, Cognitive, Social (2023)                          (Course blog: https://voices.uchicago.edu/202304cogs20100/)

  • Instructor, Historical and Contemporary Approaches to the Cognitive Sciences (2022)

  • Discussion section leader, Mind, Brain and Meaning (2022)

  • Discussion section leader, Sensation and Perception (2020)

  • Teaching assistant, Psychological Research Methods (2019)   

  • Teaching assistant, Cognitive Psychology (2019)     

  • Teaching assistant, Biological Psychology (2019, 2018)     

Creative & Public Writings 

  • English poems collection “If a Hippo Swallows Democracy” (in preparation)

  • Third Round, 2017 China National Short Poem Competition (200 out of 23,000 participants)

  • “Going beyond the boundaries: The sciences and humanities education at the University of Chicago” (In Chinese), Pengpai (The Paper), April 29, 2021.

  • “Socially vulnerable groups in COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from 2009 H1N1 Pandemic” (In Chinese), Pengpai (The Paper), February 12, 2021.

 

Other Activities 

  • Public Lecture on AI for High School Students in Extreme Poverty in Southwest China (July 2024), Dehong, Yunnan, China

  • Volunteer Teacher, Peach Foundation (July 2023, July 2024) - Taught Chinese, English, and Music to high school students in extreme poverty in Yunnan, China and Burmese refugee children in Mae Sot, Thailand.

  • Sponsorship Program, Peach Foundation (2018 - )  - Supporting students in extreme poverty in Yunnan Province of China for finishing high school 

  • Performance Program (Piano & Chamber Music), Department of Music, University of Chicago (2015-19; 2023-25)

  • Chinese Liberal Arts Education Forum (July 2012, July 2013) - Invited main talk on liberal arts education at Peking University; seminar leader on works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Raymond Williams.

Contact

Cognitive Science, Social Sciences Division,

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637

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Email: yuji1@uchicago.edu

©2024 by Eugene Yu Ji. All rights reserved.

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