Zhengwu Ma

Hi, I’m Zhengwu, a 2nd-year PhD student at the LAnguages, Machines & Brains Lab, City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Jixing Li.

Before moving to Hong Kong, I earned my B.A. in English from Xi’an Jiaotong University, supervised by Prof. Xiaopeng Zhang. During undergrad, I also studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I dove into linguistics. I was the intern at iFLYTEK Silk Road Headquarters.

My research applies computational models to uncover how the human brain represents and computes semantic information during speech comprehension.

Contact me at: zhengwu.ma {at} my.cityu.edu.hk

News:

• 01/2026: Proud to organize the BIOMAG 2026 LPP Decoding Challenge
• 09/2025: Our scaling paper published in Nature Computational Science
• 09/2025: I’m in SNL2025 @ Washington, D.C.