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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), Department of Music, University of Chicago (2015-2019)

Contact

Cognitive Science, Social Sciences Division

The University of ChicagoChicago, IL, 60637

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Email: yuji1@uchicago.edu

©2024 by Eugene Yu Ji. All rights reserved.

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