Welcome to the Sun Lab

News: Our Lab is currently recruiting researchers and participants! Join us!

We are a research group at PolyU HK in the Department of Language and Technology.

Our research focsues on leveraging psychology, education, and language science to understand the heterogeneity of neurocognitive profiles among children from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds and integrating brain sciences into research and applications to benefit young learners, parents, and educational practitioners.

We have two overarching goals: first, to understand language development in children, particularly how monolinguals vs. bilinguals put together words and word-compounds. Second, to understand how LLM feedback helps with language aquisition as LLM become more prevalent in today’s education society.

We are currently doing…..

We are looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, Master, and undergraduate students to join the team (more info) !

News

1. November 2025

Welcome Audrey!

3. August 2025

Welcome Xin — our lab is officially starting!

2. January 2025

Congratulations on Xin publishing another paper! Our paper is in Springer Nature

1. February 2025

We got our commercial STM from Unisoku, and we are already busy modifying.

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