Yangyang Wang
Assistant Professor, Brandeis University
Department of Mathematics
Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Neuroscience Program
E-mail: yangyangwang@brandeis.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QhnUXkUAAAAJ&hl=en
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About
My research interests include dynamical systems, mathematical and computational neuroscience, multiple timescale dynamics, network dynamics and homeostasis. I am particularly interested in modeling and analyzing intrinsic neural dynamics in central pattern generators, brain rhythms associated with cognition, and sensory feedback control in complex adaptive biological systems, using geometric singular perturbation theory, bifurcation analysis, mathematical modeling and numerical simulations. In addition, I also explore the role that network structure plays in determining what dynamics are possible within a system. Applications of interest include respiratory rhythms, motor control in food-swallowing behavior in the sea slug Aplysia, role of astrocytes in chemosensory control of respiration, speech perception, and homeostasis in biochemical networks.
Current Funding
NIH R01DA057767: Five-year award for "CRCNS: Evidence-based modeling of neuromodulatory action on network properties", Yangyang Wang (PI), Alfredo Garcia at UChicago, 6/15/2022-4/30/2027
Upcoming Activities and Talks
June 30 - July 5, 2024, SMB Annual Meeting, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Co-organizing a minisymposium "Neuronal network dynamics unveiled with analysis" (with C. Ly)
Invited talk at SMB Annual Meeting
August 5-6, 2024, Swartz Foundation Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
August 8-9, 2024
Co-organizing Mathematical Biosciences Workshop at Penn State, University Park, PA (with W. Hao, H. Jain and G. Rempala)
Invited talk at Mathematical Biosciences Workshop
Selected Recent Activities
Sep 18-22 2023, invited talk at ICERM Workshop on Mathematical Challenges in Neuronal Network Dynamics
Aug 7-11th 2023, AIM SQuaRE for research collaboration in Caltech, Pasadena, CA
July 16-21th 2023, co-organized a two-part minisymposium "Uncovering activity patterns, oscillations and other key dynamics of neuronal (and other) networks" at the SMB Annual Meeting (with C. Ly, J. Best, and P. Pyzza)
July 13-15th 2023, co-organized a 3-day workshop Dynamical Systems in the Life Sciences (with H. Jain and G. Rempala)
June 2nd 2023, invited talk at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
May 14-18th 2023, invited talk in the minisymposium on Phase-Based Reduction of Limit Cycle Oscillators at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems
July 2022, invited MS talk titled "Homeostasis in Input-Output Networks, with Applications to Biological Systems" at SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences
June 2021, invited MS talk titled "Timing and shape responses of limit cycle with hard boundaries: application to neuromechanical control problems" at International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience
June 2021, SMB Annual Meeting
Co-organized a two-part minisymposium titled "Biological Rhythms and Motor Control" (with P. Thomas)
MS talk titled "Shape and timing: using variational analysis to dissect motor robustness"
Co-organized a three-part minisymposium titled "Homeostasis in Networks" (with M. Golubitsky)
MS talk titled "Complex Bursting Patterns in an Embryonic Respiratory Neuron Model"
Co-organized CAMBAM Zoomposium titled "Multiple Timescales in Neuronal and Other Systems" (with J Rubin)
-->Recordings available on the CRM YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eODSNQoCbL0