Research scientist at NUS
I am a research scientist in the Computational Brain Imaging Group (PI: Thomas Yeo) at National University of Singapore. My research focuses on developing machine learning algorithms to study individual differences in brain organization from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and exploring their relationship with human behaviors.
I completed my PhD at National University of Singapore (supervisor: Thomas Yeo). My PhD research focused on estimating individual-specific network-level and areal-level parcellation. Similar to connectivity strength, my thesis work demonstrated that individual-specific network or parcel topography might also serve as a fingerprint of human behavior.
I was trained as an Engineer. Before my PhD, I worked on Media Access Control (MAC) protocol in wireless networks and developed base station softwares for smart house in the Intelligent to Wireless Networking and Cooperative Control (PI: Xinping Guan & Cailian Chen) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
📮ruby.kong[at]nus.edu.sg
My Chinese name is 孔(Kong) 儒(Ru), where 孔(Kong) is my family name and 儒(Ru) is my given name.
My family tree is known as the Family tree of Confucius. Confucius (孔子) is a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period, whose philosophy forms the foundations of Chinese culture. I am the 76th generation of the Kong family, but I am not from the main line of descent of Confucius.
儒(Ru) is the name of the philosophy developed by Confucius, which is known as Confucianism or Ruism.