About

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the CoNe Lab, led by Dr. Ian Cone, at UT Southwestern Medical Center. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri–Columbia in 2024, where I worked in the Neural Engineering Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Satish S. Nair. My doctoral research focused on biophysical neural circuit modeling to investigate neural oscillations and network dynamics, as well as computational methods for analyzing electrophysiological recordings.

Before joining UT Southwestern, I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Arizona, working with Dr. Kavan Hazeli (2024–2025) on human movement analysis and markerless pose estimation, and subsequently with Dr. Stephen Cowen (2025–2026) on electrophysiological and behavioral data analysis in a rodent model of dyskinesia.

My broader research interests include computational neuroscience, biophysical neural modeling, neural dynamics, signal processing, and machine learning. Currently, I am particularly interested in developing biophysically grounded models to investigate the cellular and synaptic mechanisms underlying behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), and how these mechanisms contribute to learning, memory, and neural computation in hippocampal circuits.

Here is my CV.

Contact

Email: ziao.chen [at] utsouthwestern.edu

ziaochen [at] arizona.edu

ziaochen [at] mail.missouri.edu