Highlight in News

The research on deep learning and brain decoding ( see paper ) is highlighted in more than 100 national and international media in 2017.

• Science Magazine. Researchers demonstrate ‘mind-reading’ brain-decoding tech.
• Purdue News. Artificial intelligence is learning to read your mind and display what it sees.
• NVIDIA. AI Mind-Reading Technology Can Decode Your Brain.
• Science Museum. This machine can guess what people think.
• IEEE Future Directions. Watching in the brain … what you are watching.
• Big Think. “Mind-Reading” Technology Has Been Developed by Purdue Scientists.
• Science Daily. 'Mind-reading' brain-decoding tech.
• The New Stack. Mind-Reading AI Can Reconstruct Videos Using Your Brain Waves.
• Medical New Bulletin. Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Can Read Your Mind.
• Some others listed by Altmetric, and news in other languages like Sohu, AI Era, NewSeed, and Jiqizhixin.

The research on the neural contribution to global fMRI signal ( see paper ) is highlighted by Purdue News in 2016.

• Purdue News. Research yielding insights into brain's signaling network.
• Quanta Magazine. Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries.

Graduate Awards

• Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (awards) in the College of Engineering at Purdue University in 2018.
• Merit Abstract Award (Top 2%) at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) for the work entitled "Learning Transferable and Generalizable Neural Encoding Models for Natural Vision" in 2018.
• Merit Abstract Award (Top 2%) at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) for the work entitled "High Gamma Electrocorticography in Superior Temporal Gyrus Represents Words during Natural Speech" in 2018.
• Merit Abstract Award (Top 2%) at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) for the work entitled "Deep recurrent neural network reveals a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in the visual cortex" in 2017.
• Summa Cum Laude Award at the scientific meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance for Medicine (ISMRM) for the work entitled "Spontaneous brain activity in the visual cortex is organized by visual streams" in 2017.
• Merit Abstract Award (Top 2%) at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) for the work entitled "Decode cortical fMRI activity to reconstruct naturalistic movie via deep learning" in 2016.
• Neuroscience Research Award from Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience for the work entitled "Intrinsic functional networks within visual cortex supports naturalistic visual perception" in 2016.
• Travel Award at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) for the work entitled "Mapping Neural Representation of Hierarchical Visual Features during Natural Movie Stimuli" in 2016.

Undergraduate Awards

• First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Merits (Top 3%) at Zhejiang University in 2013.
• First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Merits (Top 3%) at Zhejiang University in 2012.
• Second-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Merits (Top 8%)at Zhejiang University in 2011.
• First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Merits (Top 3%) at Zhejiang University in 2010.
• Scholarship for Outstanding Students at Zhejiang University in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.