Yifan Luo

羅一帆 /i55 fan55 luɔ35/
All my friends call me TTK, an acronym that is open to interpretation

Interest

I am interested in object representation, and how it affects human decision-making. I try to understand the underlying mechanism with behavioural/neural experiment, and computational modelling.

10/25 – Present: PhD student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), co-supervised by Kobe Desender, Hans Op de Beeck, and Andrea Costantino.

Contact

yifan[dot]luo[at]kuleuven[dot]be

09/23-07/25: Research Master in Psychology (graduated cum laude) at University of Amsterdam. During my master study, I did my internship project under the supervision of H.Steven Scholte. I conducted my thesis project at Predictive Brain Lab, Donders Institute Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN), co-supervised by Floris de Lange, Lea-Maria Schmitt, and H.Steven Scholte.

03/25-09/25: I was a student assistant at Multimodal Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (03/25-09/25), co-supervised by Paula Rubio-Fernández and Dota Tianai Dong.

Publications

[Preprint]Learning to See Like a Child: Why Viewpoint Diversity is Fundamental for Human-Aligned Object Recognition

Yifan Luo, Niklas Müller, H. Steven Scholte

[ACL2026 Main, oral presentation (<5%)/Preprint] Using Perspectival Words Is Harder Than Vocabulary Words for Humans and Even More So for Multimodal Language Models

Dota Tianai Dong (co-first), Yifan Luo (co-first), Po-Ya Angela Wang, Asli Ozyurek, Paula Rubio-Fernandez