Keynote Speakers:
Nolan Williams
Brain Stimulation Lab, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Director of the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab. Dr. Williams has a broad background in clinical neuroscience and is triple board-certified in general neurology, general psychiatry, as well as behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry. In addition, he has specific training and clinical expertise in the development of brain stimulation methodologies under Mark George, MD. Themes of his work include (a) examining the use of spaced learning theory in the application of neurostimulation techniques, (b) development and mechanistic understanding of rapid-acting antidepressants, and (c) identifying objective biomarkers that predict neuromodulation responses in treatment-resistant neuropsychiatric conditions. He has published papers in high impact peer-reviewed journals including Brain, American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Results from his studies have gained widespread attention in journals such as Science and New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch as well as in the popular press and have been featured in various news sources including Time, Smithsonian, and Newsweek. Dr. Williams received two NARSAD Young Investigator Awards in 2016 and 2018 along with the 2019 Gerald R. Klerman Award. Dr. Williams received the National Institute of Mental Health Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists in 2020.
Zhiguo Zhang
MIND Lab, Shenzhen University, China
Prof. Zhang Zhiguo is the Principal Investigator of the group. He joined SZU in 2016 under the National Recruitment Program of Young Professionals. He received his B.Sc. degree from Tianjin University and his M.Phil. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in 2008. He was a Postdoctoral Research Follow with the University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Follow with the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2015 and an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) from 2015 to 2016. Before he joined SZU, he was a Professor with Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Session speakers:
Qi Dou
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong SAR
Dr. Qi DOU is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interest lies in the interdisciplinary area of artificial intelligence and healthcare with expertise in medical image analysis and robotic surgery, with the mission to advance disease diagnosis and minimally invasive intervention via machine intelligence. Dr. Dou has won the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics in 2021, Hong Kong Institute of Science Young Scientist Award in 2018, CUHK Engineering Faculty Outstanding Thesis Award in 2018, Best Paper Award of Medical Image Analysis-MICCAI in 2017, Best Paper Award of Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality in 2016, MICCAI Young Scientist Award Runner-up in 2016. Dr. Dou serves as the Programme Chair of MIDL 2021, SPC of AAAI 2021 and IJCAI 2021, Organization Committee of a series of workshops on healthcare and medical imaging related topics in top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI. Before joining CUHK faculty, Dr. Dou was a postdoctoral research associate with BioMedIA Lab at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering at CUHK in 2018, and Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Beihang University in 2014.
Hanna Lu
Neuromodulation Lab, Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Dr. Lu currently works as Research Assistant Professor and Core Member of Neuromodulation Lab and Dementia Research Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Neuromodulation and Rehabilitation at the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. Dr. Lu’s research interests focusing on the development of personalized image-guided brain stimulation and using this technique to decode complex cognitive function and treat brain disorders. From 2018, Dr. Lu initiated LANDSCAPE project (http://thebrainx.com/landscape/) to investigate how MRI-based morphometric features impact on the electric field induced by brain stimulation (e.g., TMS, tDCS) through computational simulation. Dr. LU has published more than 20 SCI papers as first and corresponding author, including JNNP, J Neuroeng Rehabil, JAD.Results from her studies have received the Best Presentation Prize awarded by International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease, Gold Prize awarded by the Committees of the 17th Asian Oceanian Congress of Neurology, Young Education Scholarship (YES) awarded by the Organizing Committees of the 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology and Fellowships awarded by the Japan Radiology Society (JRS).
Yu Sun
Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Yu Sun is a professor at the Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education of China, Zhejiang University. Before his joining to ZJU, he was a post-doc research fellow at the Centre for Life Science, National University of Singapore from 2012 to 2017. His current research emphasis has been placed on the innovation of neural information decoding model with a particular focus on human connectome. Dr. Sun has established a research framework combining analytical technology innovation as well as application-orient system design for passive brain-computer interface, which lead to over 90 journal articles in the prestigious journals and conferences. He is the receipt of the Paper Award Prize of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the Outstanding Poster Award of the 2013 IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenge Conference. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering and the Corresponding Expert of the journal Engineering.
Zhihai Qiu
Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Qiu is a postdoc research fellow at Stanford University. He is focused on understanding and developing ultrasonic based strategy for non-invasive and targeted brain stimulation. He is the member of American Society of Neuroscience, Biophysical Society, IEEE-UFFC session. Dr. Qiu published more than 15 peer review papers, 10 conference papers and 3 patents in the past five years. He was the receipt of several poster award and paper award including: Best Student Presentation Award on PIBM, China, 2013; Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster award, Biophysical society, Singapore, 2016; Young Investigator Travel Award, 2nd International Brain Stimulation Conference, Spain, 2017 and Travel Scholarship, Janelia conference etc.