RayeRen · rhmao · Sep 30, 2025 · Sep 30, 2025 · Sep 30, 2025 · Sep 30, 2025
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-repository               : "RayeRen/acad-homepage.github.io"
+title                    : "Ruihua Mao"
+name                     : "Ruihua Mao"
+description              : "PhD Candidate in Linguistics (defending Oct 2025)"
+repository               : "https://github.com/rhmao/.github.io"
 google_scholar_stats_use_cdn : true
 
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-  avatar           : "images/android-chrome-512x512.png"
-  bio              : "Lorem ipsum College"
-  location         : "Beijing, China"
-  employer         :
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+  name      : "Ruihua Mao"
+  avatar    : "images/IMG_8608.jpg"
+  bio       : "Psycholinguistics and Experimental syntax"
+  location  : "Paris France"
+  email     : "ruihua.mao@etu.u-paris.fr"
+  researchgate : "https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruihua-Mao-4?ev=hdr_xprf"
+  github    : "rhmao"
+
 # Reading Files
 include:
   - .htaccess

diff --git a/_data/navigation.yml b/_data/navigation.yml
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-# main links links
+# main links
 main:
   - title: "About Me"
     url: "/#about-me"
 
-  - title: "News"
-    url: "/#-news"
+  - title: "Research Output"
+    url: "/#research-output"
 
-  - title: "Publications"
-    url: "/#-publications"
+  - title: "Teaching"
+    url: "/#teaching"
 
-  - title: "Honors and Awards"
-    url: "/#-honors-and-awards"
+  - title: "Awards and Grants"
+    url: "/#awards"
 
-  - title: "Educations"
-    url: "/#-educations"
 
-  - title: "Invited Talks"
-    url: "/#-invited-talks"
 
-  - title: "Internships"
-    url: "/#-internships"
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+  <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
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   <head>
     {% include head.html %}
     {% include head/custom.html %}
+    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@400;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
+
   </head>
 
   <body>

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-{% if site.google_scholar_stats_use_cdn %}
-{% assign gsDataBaseUrl = "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/" | append: site.repository | append: "@" %}
-{% else %}
-{% assign gsDataBaseUrl = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/" | append: site.repository | append: "/" %}
-{% endif %}
-{% assign url = gsDataBaseUrl | append: "google-scholar-stats/gs_data_shieldsio.json" %}
+<h2 id="about-me">About Me</h2>
 
-<span class='anchor' id='about-me'></span>
 
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+I am **Ruihua Mao**, PhD in Linguistics from the [**Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle**](http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr), Université Paris Cité.  
+I am supervised by [**Dr. Anne Abeillé**](http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Abeille) (Université Paris Cité), [**Dr. Barbara Hemforth**](http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Hemforth) (CNRS, Université Paris Cité), and [**Dr. Edward Gibson**](https://bcs.mit.edu/directory/edward-gibson) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).  
 
-My research interest includes neural machine translation and computer vision. I have published more than 100 papers at the top international AI conferences with total <a href='https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DhtAFkwAAAAJ'>google scholar citations <strong><span id='total_cit'>260000+</span></strong></a> (You can also use google scholar badge <a href='https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DhtAFkwAAAAJ'><img src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url={{ url | url_encode }}&logo=Google%20Scholar&labelColor=f6f6f6&color=9cf&style=flat&label=citations"></a>).
+My PhD dissertation, titled *“Meaning-based Approaches to Locality Constraints: Extraction from English and Chinese Adjuncts and Subjects”*, was successfully defended on **October 13, 2025**.  
 
+In 2023, I spent a semester at the [**TedLab**](https://tedlab.mit.edu/) at MIT, where I conducted research on noisy channel processing in Mandarin Chinese.  
 
-# 🔥 News
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+Before moving to Paris, I studied and worked in **Hong Kong**, conducting research on: **Second language acquisition** (island constraints), **Experimental semantics** (quantifier scope in Mandarin Chinese), and **Developmental psychology** (executive functioning and reading comprehension). 
 
-# 📝 Publications 
 
-<div class='paper-box'><div class='paper-box-image'><div><div class="badge">CVPR 2016</div><img src='images/500x300.png' alt="sym" width="100%"></div></div>
-<div class='paper-box-text' markdown="1">
+### Research Interests
 
-[Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2016/papers/He_Deep_Residual_Learning_CVPR_2016_paper.pdf)
+
+- Psycholinguistics  
+
+- Experimental syntax
+
+- Information theory
+
+- Language development
 
-**Kaiming He**, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun
 
-[**Project**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=zh-CN&user=DhtAFkwAAAAJ&citation_for_view=DhtAFkwAAAAJ:ALROH1vI_8AC) <strong><span class='show_paper_citations' data='DhtAFkwAAAAJ:ALROH1vI_8AC'></span></strong>
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-</div>
+<br><br>
+
+
+### Non-degree Programs
+
+- **Visiting Student**, Department of Brain & Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb 2023-July 2023 <br>
+    Supervisor: Dr. Edward Gibson
+- **Introduction to Bayesian Statistics**, Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology.<br>
+   University of Potsdam, Germany *(Sep 2024)*
+- **LSA Summer Institute**. Amherst, USA *(Jul 2023)*
+- **Birmingham Statistics for Linguistics Summer School**. Birmingham, UK *(Jul 2022)*
+- **The Python4NLP Summer School**. Nancy, France *(May 2022)*
+<br><br>
+
+### Contact
+
+For research discussions or collaboration inquiries, please contact me at [ruihua.mao@etu.u-paris.fr](mailto:ruihua.mao@etu.u-paris.fr) or [ruihuamauri@gmail.com](mailto:ruihuamauri@gmail.com).
+
+<div style="background-color: #f5f0e6; padding: 12px; border-radius: 8px; margin-top: 10px;">
+  <p style="color: brown; font-weight: bold; margin: 0;">
+    I am actively seeking postdoctoral, lecturer, or assistant professor positions in psycholinguistics or experimental linguistics.
+    If you know of any relevant opportunities, I would be very grateful to hear from you.
+  </p>
 </div>
 
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+<br><br><br>
+
+---
+<h2 id="research-output">Research Output</h2> 
+
+### 📚 Journal Articles
+
+<ul class="journal-list">
+<li><strong>Ruihua Mao</strong>, Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson (2024). Decoding the Implausible: Mandarin Sentence Interpretation through the Noisy Channel Model. <em>Memory and Cognition</em>.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01774-1 <a href="https://rdcu.be/eJo50">[PDF]</a></li>
+
+
+<li><strong>Ruihua Mao</strong>, Anne Abeillé, Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth (2025). How Strong are “Strong” Islands? Discourse constraints best explain long-distance extraction from English adjunct clauses. <em>Cognition</em> (Under Revision). <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1BmYLJfVu70xcKtZvrq4Ln-xHAhFjNw/view?usp=share_link">[Manuscript]</a></li>
+
+<li><strong>Ruihua Mao</strong>, Anne Abeillé, Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth (2025). Extraction from subjects and objects in Chinese. (In preparation)</li>
+</ul>
+<br>
+
+### 🎤 Conference Presentations
+
+- Anne Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth, **Ruihua Mao**, Edward Gibson (2022). Acceptability of extraction out of English adjunct clauses: the role of topicalization. *the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing*, UC Santa Cruz, US. [Poster Presentation].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2022). Extraction out of Mandarin and English if-adjunct clauses: the role of topicalization. *the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)*, University of York, UK. [Poster Presentation].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao** (2022). Testing extraction (out) of subjects and objects in Mandarin Relative Clauses. *Linguistic Evidence 2022*, Université Paris Cité, France. [Oral Talk].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2022). Topicalization out of English and Mandarin if-clauses and that-clauses. *ExLing 2022 Paris conference*, Université Paris Cité, France. [Poster Presentation]
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2023). An empirical investigation of Mandarin subject island. *the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)*, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain. [Poster].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2023). Extraction out of Mandarin Clauses: Topic vs. Focus. *AMLaP Asia*, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.[Poster].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson (2023). How do Mandarin Natives interpret implausible sentences. *AMLaP Asia*, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.[Poster].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson (2023). How do Mandarin Natives interpret implausible sentences. *XL Workshop*, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité.[Internal Presentation].
+
+- **Ruihua Mao**, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2024). The Discourse Function Explains "Islands". *Proceedings of the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)* [Poster].
+
+
+<br><br><br>
+## Teaching
 
-# 🎖 Honors and Awards
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+- **Advanced Experimental Syntax** (Master level; Co-taught with Dr. Anne Abeillé; 2024 Spring)  
+- **Advanced Experimental Syntax** (Master level; Teaching assistant for Dr. Anne Abeillé; 2025 Spring)
 
-# 📖 Educations
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+<br>
 
-# 💬 Invited Talks
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+<h2 id="awards">Awards and Grants</h2>
 
-# 💻 Internships
-- *2019.05 - 2020.02*, [Lorem](https://github.com/), China.
+- **IDEX PhD Fellowship**, Université Paris Cité — *€78,000* (2021–2024)  
+- **Smarts-Up Mobility Grant**, Université Paris Cité — *€1,000* (2023)  
+- **Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle Mobility Grant**, Université Paris Cité — *€1,500* (2022)  
+- **Labex EFL Mobility Grant**, Université Paris Cité — *€3,500* (2022)  
+- **University First Class Scholarship** — (2016–2017)  
+- **University Second Class Scholarship** — (2014–2015)
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+  margin-bottom: 15px;
+  box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);
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+  transform: translateY(-2px);
+  transition: all 0.2s ease;
+  box-shadow: 0 4px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);
+}
+
+/* 确保其他列表正常 */
+ul:not(.journal-list) li {
+  background: none;
+  padding: 0;
+  border-radius: 0;
+  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
+  box-shadow: none;
+  list-style-type: disc;
+}
+
+.justify-text {
+  text-align: justify;   /* 两端对齐 */
+  text-justify: inter-word; /* 单词间调整 */
+}
+
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