I am currently a Ph.D. student co-advised by Prof. Guoqiang Yu and Prof. Yue (Joseph) Wang in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Virginia Tech. Starting from Spring 2024, I have been visiting the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center at Salk Institute for Biological Studies as a computational neuroscientist, hosted by Prof. Axel Nimmerjahn.
Prior to Virginia Tech, I obtained my master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (with a focus on operations research) from Johns Hopkins University. I have been a recipient of the Outstanding Master's Research Award given by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and I was advised by Prof. James C. Spall and Prof. John C. Wierman. Prior to Johns Hopkins, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Decision Analytics from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science in the University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Ka Chun Cheung.
My doctoral dissertation consists of the following two projects
Building biophysically grounded model for intracellular calcium signaling in astrocytes, which bridges the gap between animal behavior and astrocytic calcium signaling; Validating the model by in vivo calcium imaging data from task-driven behaving mice.
Building machine learning pipeline that predicts mouse behavior using neuronal calcium imaging data under neuropathic pain condition.
Pratt fellowship (Virginia Tech, 2026)
Outstanding master's research award (Johns Hopkins University, 2022)
Python (PyTorch, JAX, NumPy, Pandas, REST API), MATLAB, R, C++
Computational Neuroscience
Signal & Image processing
Mathematical & Statistical modeling
Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and their applications in neuroscience
Numerical Optimization
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center
Visiting Ph.D. student
Virginia Tech, Computational Bioinformatics and Bio-imaging Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
Graduate Teaching Assistant (EN.553.663 Network models in operations research)
Tutorial videos are available here.
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Data Scientist Intern
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant
The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing School of Medicine
Statistics Consultant