Junyu Li

My research focuses on the folk psychology beliefs about children's mind and children's moral responsibility. I am interested in the evolution of social behaviors, and in particular the problems at the intersection of moral psychology, normative ethics and gene-cultural coevolution. Before coming to this favorite level of abstraction, I had a background in biology and worked on computational methods for quantifying animal behaviors to allow linking behaviors to genomes (cichlid fish bower-building), neurons (fruit fly courtship) and inferences about cognition (chimpanzee anticipation). 

Pereira, T. D., Tabris, N., Matsliah, A., Turner, D. M., Li, J., Ravindranath, S., ... & Murthy, M. (2022). SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking. Nature methods, 19(4), 486-495.

Long, L., Johnson, Z. V., Li, J., Lancaster, T. J., Aljapur, V., Streelman, J. T., & McGrath, P. T. (2020). Automatic classification of cichlid behaviors using 3D convolutional residual networks. Iscience, 23(10), 101591.