Dr. Song Tong is a faculty member at the Bay Area School of Applied Psychological Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, and is affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University. His research focuses on AI psychology, psychoinformatics, creativity, and human–AI collaboration, with particular interests in how large language models and emerging technologies can assess, model, and support human cognitive abilities and thinking skills. He has published on LLM-assisted psychological hypothesis generation, embedding-based analyses of psychological constructs, human–LLM collaboration for creativity, and AI-based creativity assessment. He currently serves in academic roles including Interdisciplinary Track Chair for the 2026 International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2026) and as a Young Editorial Board Member of Social Computing and Social Intelligence. He is a Guest Editor of the Journal of Intelligence.
Beijing Normal University
Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
Bay Area School of Applied Psychological Sciences
CAAI-BDSC 2026 Rising Star (Social Computing Young Scholar)
Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China
Selected as a Rising Star / Social Computing Young Scholar at BDSC 2026 and invited as a featured speaker, in recognition of research on AI psychology, psychoinformatics, and human–AI collaboration
Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Selected for the Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program in recognition of postdoctoral research excellence at Tsinghua University.
Cognitive Intelligence Scholarship
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Awarded the Cognitive Intelligence Scholarship to support a one-month research visit to the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) at The University of Tokyo.
International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Beijing, China
Selected for China’s International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (Incoming Track) to support international postdoctoral research collaboration.
Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award (Honorable Mention)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Named a finalist (honorable mention) for the Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award at Tsinghua University (20/3500).
University Lecturer
Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China
01 Apr 2025 - 01 Jan 2030
Post Doctoral Researcher
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
01 Sep 2021 - 01 Mar 2025
Graduate Student or Post Graduate
Kyoto University, Kyōto, Japan
01 Apr 2015 - 01 Jul 2021