Wei Ni

Hi, I am Wei. I am reading my Master’s degree at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and I did my bachelor’s degree in the same university on control engineering.

In October 2007 I was enrolled on my university’s special course “Complex Adaptive Systems” lectured by Professor John H. Holland from the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Michigan. I was motivated by the lecturer’s teaching and research on the topic of complex systems, and I was especially inspired by the idea of studying the acquisition/evolution of natural language from rule-based agent’s perspective. My current work focuses on developing an e-learning tool to guide L2 learners to adopt a bottom-up cognitive pattern in their Chinese noun classifier acquisition.

I hope to deepen my understanding on the concepts and methodologies of complex systems studies during the summer school. I am especially interested in investigating how complexity theories and approaches (such as agent-based computational model) are applied to social systems. I look forward to having interesting discussions with you.

I come from Zhejiang, China. Aside from research, I spend time on listening to music (either it is new-age or ‘oldies-but-goodies’), reading (either books on Alexander the Great or by Friedrich Nietzsche), and doing sports such as jogging and soccer.

See you soon in June. My email is niwei@ntu.edu.sg. Keep in touch!

Li-Jiang River, Guilin, China