Yu, P.*, Yoon, H. Y. A.*, Yang, Y.*, Xu, Y., Gozel, O., Tian, G. J., Ji, N. & Doiron, B. (2026). Convergence of cortical and thalamic origins of free behavior modulation of mouse primary visual cortex. bioRxiv, 2026.01.07.698022.
In review
Publications
Preprints & under review (5)
Zhu, O., Shirhatti, V., Garza, M., Xu, Y., David, S., Hauser, C., Doiron, B. & Freedman, D. J. (2026). Frontal eye field leads a distributed oculomotor circuit for abstract categorical decisions. bioRxiv, 2026.06.30.735630.
In review
Srinath, R., Xu, Y., Doiron, B. & Cohen, M. R. (in preparation). Coordinated response modulations enable flexible use of visual information.
Liu, Y.*, Xu, Y.* & Nargesian, F. (2023). Sampling over union of joins. arXiv, 2303.00940.
Wang, Y., Turnbull, A., Xiang, T., Xu, Y., Zhou, S., Masoud, A., Azizi, S., Lin, F. V. & Adeli, E. (2024). Decoding visual experience and mapping semantics through whole-brain analysis using fMRI foundation models. arXiv, 2411.07121.
In review
Published (8)
Srinath, R., Xu, Y., Ruff, D. A., Ni, A. M., Doiron, B. & Cohen, M. R. (2026). The structure of correlated variability reflects task-relevant information in sensory neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(28), e2523217123.
Dunworth, J. B.*, Xu, Y.*, Graupner, M., Ermentrout, B., Reyes, A. D. & Doiron, B. (2025). Interleaving asynchronous and synchronous activity in balanced cortical networks with short term synaptic depression. Nature Communications, 16, 8657.
Selected as a talk · SfN 2024 Nanosymposium · Rising Stars in Neuroscience 2025
Wang, Y., Turnbull, A., Xu, Y., Heffner, K., Lin, F. V. & Adeli, E. (2024). Vision-based estimation of fatigue and engagement in cognitive training sessions. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 154, 102923.
Xu, Y., Yang, L., You, H., Zhen, Z., Wang, D.-H., Wan, X., Xie, X. & Zhang, R.-Y. (2023). RuleMatch: matching abstract rules for semi-supervised learning of human standard intelligence tests. Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1613–1621.
Xu, Y.*, Liu, J.* & Nargesian, F. (2022). TSUBASA: climate network construction on historical and real-time data. Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 286–295.
Xu, Y., Yang, P. & Tao, Z. (2023). Dangoron: network construction on large-scale time series data across sliding windows. SIGMOD 2023 Companion, Student Research Competition, 269–271.
Liu, Y. & Xu, Y. (2023). Sampling over union of joins. SIGMOD 2023 Companion, Student Research Competition, 273–275.
Liu, J., Xu, Y., Nargesian, F. & Ghoshal, G. (2022). TSUPY: dynamic climate network analysis library. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Demonstration Track, 4926–4930.
Conference abstracts (8)
Dunworth, J. B.*, Xu, Y.*, Graupner, M., Ermentrout, B., Reyes, A. D. & Doiron, B. (2024). Interleaving asynchronous and synchronous activity in balanced cortical networks with short term synaptic depression. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2024, Nanosymposium.
Talk
Yu, P., Yoon, H. Y. A., Yang, Y., Xu, Y., Gozel, O., Ji, N. & Doiron, B. (2025). Quantification of nonsense-free correlation uncovers the interaction between top-down and bottom-up sources of behavioral correlation in mouse V1. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) 2025.
Wang, Y.*, Turnbull, A.*, Xu, Y., Adeli, E. & Lin, F. V. (2023). Automated estimation of participant engagement during computerized cognitive training from facial expressions in older adults at risk for dementia. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2023.
Xu, Y., Tadin, D., Kwon, O.-S. & Zhang, R.-Y. (2022). Investigating temporal evolution of motion direction judgments within a biophysically realistic network. Vision Sciences Society (V-VSS) 2022.
Xu, Y., Kwon, O.-S., Zhang, R.-Y. & Tadin, D. (2022). Investigating temporal evolutions of perceptual choice within biological and artificial neural networks. Optica Fall Vision Meeting 2022.
Xu, Y., Turnbull, A., Lu, J., Zuo, Y. & Lin, F. V. (2022). Data-driven analysis in mice reveals whole-brain dynamics along a known anterior-posterior axis that inform the neural basis of behavior. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2022.
Xu, Y., Liu, J., Yang, P., Viso, N. & Nargesian, F. (2022). TSUBASA-PLUS: correlation matrix computation on sliding windows. IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC) 2022.
Liu, Y., Xu, Y. & Nargesian, F. (2022). Join size estimation over union of join paths. IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC) 2022.
* denotes equal contribution. Plates are generated visual indices keyed to the kind of work — a correlation matrix, a raster, a network — not figures reproduced from the papers.