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I officially released Maieusis v0.1.0, an open-source AI system that turns scientific datasets into families of questions that are both scientifically valuable and genuinely answerable with the available data. Maieusis grew out of our award-winning prototype, Quaero, and has since been developed into a full research system with dataset-grounded planning, deterministic verification, and independent review.

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Our paper “The structure of correlated variability reflects task-relevant information in sensory neurons” has been published in PNAS. It grew out of the preprint “Guided by Noise.”

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Quaero, the prototype that later evolved into Maieusis, won Second Place at the AI for Science Hackathon hosted by Columbia University and Bloomberg. Quaero explored how AI systems could generate ambitious scientific questions while ensuring that those questions remain operationalizable with real datasets.

Our preprint “Convergence of Cortical and Thalamic Origins of Free Behavior Modulation of Mouse Primary Visual Cortex” is online now.

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I just passed my qualifying exam and became a PhD Candidate.

My co-first author paper “Interleaving asynchronous and synchronous activity in balanced cortical networks with short term synaptic depression” has been published in Nature Communications.

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I have been awarded the Kavli NeuroData Discovery Grant ($50k USD) from the Kavli Foundation. It is my great honor!

Our preprint “Guided by Noise: Correlated Variability Channels Task-Relevant Information in Sensory Neurons” is online now.

I will be attending OIST Computational Neuroscience Course this summer. See you in Okinawa, Japan.

I will be attending Cosyne 2025 in Montreal. Please check out my co-authored poster “Quantification of nonsense-free correlation uncovers the interaction between top-down and bottom-up sources of behavioral correlation in mouse V1”.

I will be attending SFN 2024, and will give a talk on our research “Interleaving asynchronous and synchronous activity in balanced cortical networks with short term synaptic depression”. Please come and take a look! MCP Room N427 | NANO36 | 10/7/2024 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM.

I will be attending The 2024 ABC Summer School “Neuro-AI: Harnessing AI to understand computation in mind and brain”. See you guys in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

I officially joined Prof. Brent Doiron’s Lab for my PhD!

I am starting my second rotation in Prof. Wei Wei’s lab. Prepared to learn short term synaptic depression in retina!

I have successfully finished my rotation presentation in Prof. Brent Doiron’s Lab! Just received an offer which I have committed. Finally found a home for my PhD~

I am starting my first rotation in Prof. Brent Doiron’s Lab. Excited to work on balanced cortical networks.

I am presenting RuleMatch: Matching Abstract Rules for Semi-supervised Learning of Human Standard Intelligence Tests at IJCAI 2023. Come take a look!

I will be attending European Summer School in Sensory Neuroscience. See you guys in Pisa, Italy.

I will be attending Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience. See you guys in Eresfjord, Norway.

I will be attending Nengo summer school on large-scale brain modelling and neuromorphic computing. See you guys in Waterloo, Canada.

I have been awarded a scholarship to the 12th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Evil. See you guys in Newburgh, NY.

One paper was accepted in IJCAI. Looking forward to seeing you in Macau this summer!

Thrilled to announce I'll be joining UChicago as a PhD student in the Computational Neuroscience (CNS) program!

I have been selected as a featured researcher by the Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of Rochester.

I gave a talk at the School of Mathematical Sciences (my home department before) at Fudan University. It’s nice to be back home.

I was awarded the Honorable Mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers by CRA.