I'm a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California. My main interest is psycholinguistics. More specifically, I am interested in reference resolution in general and the processing of non-syntactically constrained referential forms in particular. I am also interested in evidentiality and its role in the real-time processing of anaphora. My secondary research interests include Chinese syntax and second language acquisition. My advisors are Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta.

/Education
2005 - University of California - Berkeley, BA in Psychology
2005 - Parsons School of Design
2009 - University of Southern California, MA in Linguistics
2012 - University of Southern California, (PhD in Linguistics projected to be completed)

/Conferences
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2009). Investigating the consequences of variable accessibility for the real-time interpretation of Chinese complex reflexives. Poster presented at Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference.

He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2009). Consequences of Variable Accessibility for Anaphor Resolution in Chinese. In S.L. Devi, A. Branco and R. Mitkov (eds). Proceedings of the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2009), pp.48-55. AU-KBK Research Centre, Anna University.

He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2010). Person-Feature Based Blocking and the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. 40th Michigan Linguistic Society Conference University of Michigan, Flint.

He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). What "I" Can Tell You about the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Poster presented at the 2011 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). What "You" and "I" Can Say about the Real-Time Resolution of the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Talk to be presented at the 35th Penn Linguistic Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA.

He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). The Role of Perspective-Taking in Person-Feature Blocking with the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Poster to be presented at CUNY Psycholinguistic Conference, Stanford, CA.

He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). Do ‘You’ and ‘I’ Differ? Investigating Person-Feature Based Blocking on the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Talk to be presented at the 4th Quantitative Investigation of Theoretic Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.

/Teaching
FA'08 - WRITING 140 - Critical reading and writing - Assistant lecturer (instructor of record)
SP'09 - WRITING 140 - Critical reading and writing - Assistant lecturer (instructor of record)
FA'09 - WRITING 140 - Critical reading and writing - Assistant lecturer (instructor of record)
SP'10 - Writing Center: one-on-one writing consultant
FA'10 - WRITING 140 - Critical reading and writing - Assistant lecturer (instructor of record)
           - PSYC 501 - Statistics in psychological research (graduate level) - Teaching assistan
SP'11 - PSYC 274 - Statistics I - Teaching assistant