06/20/2022 I joined the MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science & Brain-Machine Integration at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China as a Tenure-Track Professor. Our NeuroControl Lab is also moved to Liangzhu Lab 6A 1369 Wenyi West Road, Hangzhou, China.
05/27/2022 Hao’s journal paper on developing a robust adaptive neuromodulation algorithm is now online here. Congrats, Hao!
11/05/2021Hao presented our research at SfN 2021. See the virtual presentation below. Congrats, Hao!
10/01/2021 Hao presented our paper at IEEE EMBC 2021. See the virtual presentation below. Congrats, Hao!
08/01/2021 We have set up our MagStim Super Rapid rTMS System. Charge on with our rTMS system!
06/17/2021We successfully hosted the 2021 Camp Connect Advanced for our K-12 friends Evan and Lia!
06/01/2021 We received the UCF COM and CECS Pilot Award “Designing and Validating an Intelligent Neural Control System for Treating Neuropsychiatric and Neurological Disorders”. A brief introduction to this project can be found below
02/10/2021We have set up our great ActiCHamp Plus 128 EEG System. Charge on with our EEG system!
02/01/2021 Our Nature Biomedical Engineering paper is now published (link). This work develops a dynamic model to predict the response of multiregional brain networks during electrical stimulation. Read the UCF story here and the USC story here.
11/30/2020 Our paper is published in the Journal of Neural Engineering (link). The paper develops a new adaptive algorithm that can fit latent-state brain models and automatically tune the learning rate.
08/11/2020 Our paper is published in the Journal of Neural Engineering (link). The paper shows for the first time how we can adaptively track time-varying dynamics in human ECoG activity.
08/08/2020 I started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Disability, Aging and Technology (DAT) Faculty Cluster in the University of Central Florida (UCF).
02/19/2020 I presented our poster on modeling large-scale brain network dynamics in response to electrical stimulation at Cosyne 2020, Denver, CO.
09/15/2019 I took a postdoc position at the NSEIP Lab working with Prof. Maryam Shanechi to develop closed-loop BMIs for controlling optogenetic stimulation in non-human primates.
08/19/2019 I sucessfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!
07/23/2019 Our work on developing closed-loop brain-computer interfaces for treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders using electrical brain stimulation has been nominated for the BCI Award 2019 here.
06/05/2019 I presented our work on mood decoding and dynamic input-output modeling of electrical brain stimulation at the 2019 Carolina Neurostimulation Conference (CNC) in Chapel Hill.
05/16/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on dynamic network modeling for human ECoG activity is now published online here.
03/11/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a personalized closed-loop brain interface system for anesthetic delivery is now published online here.
09/17/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a computational framework for modeling the brain response to electrical stimulation is now published here.
09/11/2018 Read our behind the paper story of the Nature Biotechnology mood decoding paper here.
09/10/2018 Our paper was published today in Nature Biotechnology demonstrating mood decoding for the first time. Read stories here and here.
08/15/2018 I presented our work on mood decoding at MFPT 2018 at Virginia Beach.
05/16/2018 I got my Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
03/03/2018 I presented our work on identification of input-output brain dynamics at Cosyne 2018 at Denver.
11/13/2017 I presented our work on identification of input-output brain dynamics at SfN 2017 at Washington D.C.
07/13/2017 I presented our work on adaptive tracking of human ECoG dynamics at EMBC 2017 at Jeju Island, Korea
06/13/2017 I attended the DARPA SUBNETS phase III project review in Kansas.
06/07/2017 Our 2017 EMBC conference paper on adaptive tracking of human ECoG dynamics is accepted!
11/07/2016 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a generalizable closed-loop system for control of anesthesia is now published here
07/05/2016I started a short-term externship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to do closed-loop anesthetic drug delivery experiments on rodents.
06/22/2016 I attended the DARPA SUBNETS phase II project review in Colorado, and successfully presented our work on network mood biomarker identification and input-output relationship identification in response to deep brain stimulation.
06/02/2016 I attended the Sixth International Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting 2016 in California. I presented our lab’s work on designing high-rate control-theoretic brain-machine interfaces.
05/30/2016 Our 2016 EMBC conference paper on efficient input-output relationship identification of brain network dynamics is accepted!
03/31/2016 Our current work on designing BMIs for closed-loop treatment of depression was highlighted by USC news. Read more here.
08/26/2015 My first-authored paper in the IEEE EMBC was selected as the geographic finalist from North America, and was announced as a winner of the best student paper competition. Read more here.
08/26/2015 At Milan, Italy, I successfully presented our 2015 EMBC conference paper on efficient input-output relationship identification!
08/26/2015 At Milan, Italy, I successfully presented our 2015 EMBC conference paper on a generalizable BMI for anesthesia control!
