Name: Dr. Chenggang Chen 陈成刚
Position: Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
Address: 720 Rutland Avenue, 412 Traylor Building, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Email: cheng-gang.chen@jhu.edu, ccgjhu1988@gmail.com, ccg1988@yeah.net
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lX2cBeEAAAAJ
Educations
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2011.08-2018.07
Thesis: Cell-type and brain state dependent coding and circuit in the auditory midbrain
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China 2007.08-2011.07
Thesis: Retinal image segmentation based on convolutional neural network (CNN)
Positions
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 2018.09-present
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoqin Wang https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=877mtdkAAAAJ
Graduate Student, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2011-2018
Advisor: Dr. Sen Song https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cYgtRP4AAAAJ
Publications (9 first author, 1 co-first author*, # corresponding author)
14. Narrow-spike, burst-firing neurons in primate auditory cortex are excitatory with distinct tuning
bioRxiv (2025)
Chenggang Chen#, Evan Remington and Xiaoqin Wang
13. Dynamic representation of sound locations during task engagement in marmoset auditory cortex
bioRxiv (2025)
Chenggang Chen, Evan Remington and Xiaoqin Wang
12. No free lunch from audio pretraining in bioacoustics: a benchmark study of embeddings
IJCNN 2025 (poster)
Chenggang Chen# and Zhiyu Yang
11. Location-specific neural facilitation in marmoset auditory cortex
Nature Communications (2025)
Chenggang Chen, Sheng Xu, Yunyan Wang and Xiaoqin Wang
10. Neural Embeddings Rank: Aligning 3D latent dynamics with movements
NeurIPS 2024 (Top 2%, Scores: 7, 7, 6)
NeuroAI Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024 (Scores: 9, 7, 7)
Self-Supervised Learning Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024 (Oral, Top 4 papers, Scores: 8, 7)
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) 2024 Abstracts
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2024 Late-Breaking Abstracts
Chenggang Chen#, Zhiyu Yang and Xiaoqin Wang
9. Distinct neuron types contribute to hybrid auditory spatial coding
The Journal of Neuroscience (2024)
Chenggang Chen# and Sen Song
8. Tonotopic organization of auditory cortex in marmosets revealed by multi-modal wide-field optical imaging
Current Research in Neurobiology (2024)
Xindong Song*, Yueqi Guo*, Chenggang Chen*, Jong Hoon Lee and Xiaoqin Wang
7. Voice patches in the marmoset auditory cortex revealed by wide-field calcium imaging
bioRxiv (2024)
Yang Zhang, Chenggang Chen, Michael Osmanski and Xiaoqin Wang
6. Sound localization acuity in the common marmoset
Hearing Research (2023) cover paper
Chenggang Chen, Evan Remington and Xiaoqin Wang
5. Mesoscopic landscape of cortical functions revealed by through-skull wide-field imaging in marmosets.
Nature Communications (2022)
Xindong Song, Yueqi Guo, Hongbo Li, Chenggang Chen, Jong Hoon Lee, Yang Zhang, Zachary
Schmidt and Xiaoqin Wang
4. A silent two-photon imaging system for studying in vivo auditory neuronal functions.
Light: Science & Applications (2022)
Xindong Song, Yueqi Guo, Chenggang Chen and Xiaoqin Wang
3. Differential cell-type dependent state modulations of sensory representations in mouse inferior colliculus.
Communications Biology (2019)
Chenggang Chen and Sen Song
2. Neuronal organization in the inferior colliculus revisited with cell-type-dependent monosynaptic tracing.
The Journal of Neuroscience (2018)
Chenggang Chen, Mingxiu Cheng, Tetsufumi Ito and Sen Song
1. Breathing to harvest energy as a mechanism towards making a liquid metal beating heart.
RSC Advances (2016)
Liting Yi*, Yujie Ding, Bin Yuan, Lei Wang, Lu Tian, Chenggang Chen, Fujun Liu, Sen Song and Jing Liu
Oral presentations
14. 10th Midwest Auditory Research Conference (MARC), 2025, Rootstown, OH
13. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) SSL Workshop, 2024, Vancouver, Canada
12. Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Auditory System, 2024, Smithfield, RI
11. Marmoset Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, 2024, Boulder, CO
10. 47th Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Annual Meeting, 2024, Anaheim, CA
9. Binaural and Spatial Hearing (BASH), 2023, Omaha, NE
8. 9th BRAIN Initiative Annual Meeting, 2023, Bethesda, MD
7. Electronic Auditory Research Seminars (EARS), 2023, Online
6. 46th Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Annual Meeting, 2023, Orlando, FL
5. International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS), 2022, Online
4. 9th Midwest Auditory Research Conference (MARC), 2022, Ann Arbor, MI
3. 45th Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Annual Meeting, 2022, Online
2. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN), 2021, Online
1. Marmoset Bioscience Symposium, 2020, Online
Area Chair (Editor)
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rome, Italy 2025
Reviewer
NeurIPS 2025, ICLR 2025-26, Interspeech 2024-25, IJCNN 2023-2025
NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR Workshop 2022-25
Honors and Awards
Midwest Auditory Research Conference Travel Award 2025
BRAIN Initiative 9th Annual Meeting Trainee Highlight Award 2023
ARO 46th Annual Meeting Travel Award 2023
ARO Member Spotlight 2022
Neurodata ReHack Travel Award 2022
Neurodata Without Border Hackathon Travel Award 2022
Midwest Auditory Research Conference Travel Award 2022
Tsinghua IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research Best Presentation Award 2018
Outstanding Graduate Award 2011
China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), National Second Prize 2010
National Scholarship 2008, 2010
Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship 2010
Samsung Scholarship 2009