2020 - present: Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA
2016 - 2020: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Project:The Neurobiology of Language Recovery. PI: Brenda Rapp
2016: Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMEC), University of Trento, Italy.
Project: Cortical Representation of Abstract Semantic Knowledge. PI: Scott Farihall
2015 December: PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMEC), University of Trento, Italy.
Dissertation: The Neural Representation of Polysemy. Supervisor: Massimo Poesio.
2012 July: Master in Cognitive Science, Language and Multimodal Interaction track ("110 e lode"). Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMEC), University of Trento, Italy.
Thesis: An Investigating of Abstract Concept Representation: Combining Neuroimaging and Corpus-based Semantic Analysis. Supervisor: Massimo Poesio, Co-Supervisor: Andrew Anderson.
2010: Bachelor in Software Engineering. Northeast Normal University, China.
2022
Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting (AoA), Philadelphia. The relationship between structural damage and functional re-organization in post-stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia
2020
Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting (AoA), Virtual. Functional network re-organization in post-stroke and primary progressive aphasia: The network consequences of stroke and neurodegenerative disease
2018
Academy of Aphasia 56th Annual Meeting (AoA), Montreal, Canada. The role of functional modularity in recovery from chronic aphasia
2012
Workshop of Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, Mumbai, India. Paper accepted for oral presentation: On discriminating fMRI representations of abstract WordNet taxonomic categories}. A. Anderson, Y. Tao, B. Murphy B, M. Poesio
18th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Paris, France. Winner of Biomag 2012 data analysis competition on decoding word and category specific representations. (E. Olivetti, Y Tao, N. Weisz)
2022
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Philadelphia, USA. Dissociation between structural and functional longitudinal changes in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco. The Relationship Between Structural Damage and Functional Reorganization in Post-Stroke Aphasia and Primary Progressive Aphasia
2021
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Virtual. Disruption of homotopic functional and structural connectivity in post-stroke and progressive aphasia
Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Virtual. The effects of focal and diffuse damage on functional networks: a comparison of post-stroke and primary progressive aphasia using network analysis
2020
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Virtual. Different patterns of functional network reorganization across the variants of primary progressive aphasia: a graph-theoretic analysis
2019
The Annual Meeting of American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR), Chicago. The neural mechanisms underlying tDCS effects in PPA: Evidence from resting-state functional network analysis Presidential Award Finalist
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco. The effects of focal lesions on the modular organization of the brain: A comparison of simulated and real lesions
2018
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Quebec City, Canada. Functional modularity supports treatment-induced recovery in chronic aphasia
2017
Academy of Aphasia 55th Annual Meeting (AoA), Baltimore. Do focal brain lesions have distant effects on intact neural tissue
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Baltimore. Using background connectivity to index recovery of function in acquired language impairments
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco. Diaschisis in acquired dysgraphia: Are there ripple effects from focal brain lesions to intact neural substrates? Post-Doctoral Fellow Award
2015
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Chicago. Distinguishing concrete and abstract senses in polysemy: the role of the ventral anterior temporal lobe
2021: Guest lecture Decoding the Brain: Multivariate analysis in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, USA)
2018 & 2019: Instructor Decoding the Brain: Multivariate analysis in Cognitive Neuroscience (upper undergraduate level course). Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA. JHU Dean's Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship
2018 & 2019: Co-instructor Cognitive Neuroscience (basic level undergraduate level course). Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Alzheimer's & Dementia; Brain Communications; Brain Connectivity; Brain Topography; Cortex; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; European Journal of Neurology; Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Neurolinguistics; Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair;
Mandarin Chinese: Native
English: Highly proficient
Italian, Japanese: Intermediate