Neural network models of the brain
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(06/06/22) Dr. Liu invited to talk in the “Noise as Signal” symposium.
(05/31/22) Madeleine Di Natale visiting the lab from the Furness lab at the University of Melbourne.
(05/20/22) Xiaokai invited to present in Neural Engineering symposium.
(05/12/22) Dr. Liu invited to give a seminar in Michigan Neuroscience Institute.
(05/06/22) Kuan presented in the University of Michigan Neuroscience Conference.
(04/20/22) Xiaowai awarded the Glenn Edmonson Scholarship.
(04/20/22) The Lab received seed funding to develop MRI for imaging the human GI tract.
(03/02/22) Dr. Liu gave an invited seminar in Carnegie-Mellon University.
(02/17/22) Dr. Liu gave a talk on computational tool and technology seminar series at U-M.
(01/28/22) New results show that the vagus nerve mediates the coherence between stomach and brain.
(11/18/21) Collaborative research on using fMRI for Alzheimer’s Diseases funded by Precision Health.
(11/12/21) Ana Cecilia Saavedra Bazan joined the lab as a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering.
(11/12/21) Dr. Liu gave a talk about the brain and AI in Neural Networks Interdisciplinary Seminar.
(11/10/21) Cherry presented intrinsic gut-brain synchronization at the SfN annual meeting.
(11/10/21) Cherry presented orientation selectivity of gastric neurons in NTS at the SfN annual meeting.
(10/27/21) A collaborative paper shows the organization of the musculature in the rat stomach.
(10/11/21) Cherry reported orientation selectivity of gastric neurons in NTS on the Journal of Neural Engineering.
(10/01/21) Dr. Liu joined Data Analytics & Information Technology workgroup in U-M Precision Health.
(09/29/21) A collaborative paper shows the roles of beta, theta, and gamma oscillations in speech perception.
(09/28/21) Yizhen published visually grounded language models (code, slides) in NeurIPS 2021.
(09/22/21) The Lab received an NIH R01 grant to develop MRI for gastroparesis.
(09/03/21) NIH research projects on interoception to improve understanding of brain-body function.
(09/01/21) The Lab received an NIH R01 award to use fMRI to study brain-stomach interactions with animal models.
(08/30/21) Amaya Murguia and Fatimah Alkaabi joined the lab as PhD students.
(08/25/21) The Lab received an NSF award to use predictive coding to develop biologically plausible vision models.
(08/13/21) Angela Yee joined the lab as an associate animal specialist. Welcome!
(08/05/21) Dr. Liu co-edited a special issue on Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering.
(07/21/21) Jung-Hoon published VAE for representation learning of fMRI activity on NeuroImage.
(07/19/21) The Lab released the code and model for VAE-based representation learning of fMRI data.
(07/01/21) Ashley Cornett joined the lab as the new lab manager. Welcome!
(06/25/21) Yizhen Zhang passed her final defense for PhD in electrical and computer engineering. Congratulations.
(06/23/21) Cherry Cao passed her final defense for PhD in biomedical engineering. Congratulations.
(06/05/21) The Lab is recruiting an animal specialist.
(05/20/21) Jiayue Cao received Magna Cum Laude Award from ISMRM scientific meeting 2021.
(05/20/21) Xiaokai received Magna Cum Laude Award from ISMRM scientific meeting 2021.
(05/11/21) Yizhen published on Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering.
(05/10/21) Dr. Liu gave a talk about gut-brain interactions in the U-M BME Symposium.
(02/23/21) Dr. Liu gave a talk about brain and AI in the U-M fMRI symposium.
(02/10/21) Jung-Hoon Kim passed his final defense for PhD on representation learning of fMRI. Congratulations.
(02/08/21) The Lab’s prior work on isolating 1/f-like neural activity featured by Quanta Magazine.