E-mail: yangyangwang@brandeis.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QhnUXkUAAAAJ&hl=en
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 neural control of breathing and disorders such as opioid-induced respiratory depression, motor control in food-swallowing behavior in the sea slug Aplysia, neuromodulation, 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
April 1, 2026, invited talk at Brain Behavior and Cognition Seminar Series, Boston University, Boston, MA
June 2-5, 2026, International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
July 6-9, 2026, SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Cleveland, Ohio
July 13-17, 2026, Annual Society for Mathematical Biology Meeting, Graz, Austria
Selected Recent Talks and Activities
January 4-7, 2026, invited talk at the special session `Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems' at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC
October 20, 2025, invited talk at Dynamical Systems Seminar, Boston University
October 9-10, 2025, plenary speaker at Coupled 80 Workshop, Porto, Portugal
July 13-18, 2025, co-organized minisymposium 'Neurodynamics' at the Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Canada (with R. Bertram)
July 13-18, 2025, invited talk at minisymposium 'Emerging Areas in Mathematical Biology' at the Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Canada
July 5-9, 2025, invited talk at Workshop on Mechanisms for Oscillatory Neural Synchrony, Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Florence, Italy
June 12-13, 2025, co-organized 2-day Virtual SMB MathNeuro Mini-Conference (with H. Fatoyinbo, C. Ly and C. Mahapatra)
May 11-15, 2025, co-organized a two-part minisymposium 'Mathematical Modeling of Complex Dynamics and Modulation of Neural Networks' at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Denver, Colorado (with J. Best)
May 11-15, 2025, invited talk at minisymposium 'Patterns of Neural Activity' at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Denver, Colorado
March 24, 2025, invited talk at Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar Series, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
November 19, 2024, invited talk at Applied Mathematics Seminar, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
November 15, 2024, invited talk at Mathematics Colloquium, the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
November 5, 2024, invited talk at Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology Seminar, University of Nottingham, UK
October 29, 2024, invited talk at Mathematical Biology and Deep Learning Seminar, Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)
August 8-9, 2024
Co-organized Mathematical Biosciences Workshop at Penn State, University Park, PA (with W. Hao, H. Jain and G. Rempala)
August 5-6, 2024, Swartz Foundation Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
June 30 - July 5, 2024, SMB Annual Meeting, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Co-organized a minisymposium "Neuronal network dynamics unveiled with analysis" (with C. Ly)
Talk at SMB Annual Meeting
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)
