CV

General Information

Name Yiwei Si
Summary PhD student with interests in morphosyntax and its roles in shaping language acquisition, development and processing

Education

  • 2022 - present
    DPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
    University of Oxford
    • Supervisor: Dr. Kerstin Hoge
  • 2020 - 2022
    MPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
    University of Oxford
    • Supervisor: Dr. Kerstin Hoge
  • 2016 - 2020
    BA in German Studies
    Beijing Foreign Studies University

Honors and Awards

  • 2025 - 2026
    Hanseatic Scholarship (approx. GBP 12,570)
    Alfred Toepfer Stiftung
  • 2022 - 2025
    Clarendon Fund Scholarship (approx. GBP 102,000)
    University of Oxford
  • 2022
    Katrina Hayward Prize (GBP 100)
    Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
    • Best performance in the MPhil examination
  • 2018 - 2019
    Visiting Student Scholarship (EUR 10,000)
    China Scholarship Council

Reserach Experience

  • 2024 - 2025
    Research assistant
    Oxford Language and Brain Lab
    • Principle investigators: Prof. Aditi Lahiri, Dr. Isabella Fritz
  • 2022
    Research assistant
    Oxford Language and Brain Lab
    • Principle investigators: Prof. Aditi Lahiri, Dr. Isabella Fritz
  • 2018 - 2019
    Research assistant
    Peking University
    • Principle investigator: Dr Xuan Zheng
  • 2018
    Research assistant
    Beijing Foreign Studies University
    • Principle investigator: Prof. Yan Lin

Skills

  • Language skills
    • Chinese Mandarin (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Korean (elementary), French (elementary)
  • Experimental skills
    • Acquisition and analysis of EEG data (BrainVision Recorder/Analyzer, EEGlab and ERPlab in MatLab)
  • Technical skills
    • CLAN (for CHILDES), CHAT transcription, Latex, Python, Microsoft Office