Biography

My research goal is to contribute to our understanding of the elusive questions lying at the intersection of physics, neuroscience, and philosophy: how do robust, adaptive representations of the world emerge from the collective dynamics of ensembles of interconnected neurons? How can we rigorously explain the emergence of high-level semantic structures from low-level syntaxes? Specifially, I am interested in eluciating the fundamental computational principles of neural circuits with quantitative tools from dynamical systems, machine learning, and statistics.

I am a Chinese citizen and an American permanent resident. Born and raised in Beijing, I transferred to Vanderbilt University and came to the states after my second year at PKU to broaden my intellectual horizons. When I'm not contemplating theoretical neuroscience, I enjoy camping by the sea, hiking in in the mountains, practicing ballet, and studying philosphy.