Rui Cao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Neuroscience at University of Tennessee Knoxville. She obtained her BS in Math and Psychology from the Ohio State University and her PhD in Psychology from Indiana University Bloomington. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University.Â
Graduate Students
Lourdes is a first-year master's student with a BS in Interior Architecture and an AS in Computer Science. Her research explores how interactions with our environment shape complex cognitive processes, such as decision-making and learning, through an information-processing perspective with the goal of applying computational principles to the analysis and prediction of behavior.