Team

Weiwei Yin

Research Assistant

Weiwei earned his M.Sc. in Neurobiology from the University of Science and Technology of China, where he studied pain–emotion circuits in Prof. Zhi Zhang's lab and published a first-author paper in Anesthesiology on a central amygdala–periaqueductal gray pathway underlying pain in depression-like behavior. As a research assistant in Prof. Zengcai Guo's lab at Tsinghua University, he contributed to projects on basal ganglia control of short-term memory and motor planning, cortical dynamics during sleep–anesthesia transitions, and two-photon imaging of ALS disease models. He brings extensive hands-on experience in mouse stereotaxic surgery, in vivo electrophysiology, wide-field and two-photon calcium imaging, and optogenetic/chemogenetic manipulation.

"Where there is a Wei, there is a pathway — traced spike by spike, mapped frame by frame."
Systems neuroscience | Circuit mapping | In vivo electrophysiology | Wide-field imaging
Focus on large-scale neural activity recording and whole-brain circuit mapping

Bo Wang

Research Assistant

Bo earned his M.Sc. in Biology (Biophotonics/Neuroscience) from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), working in Prof. Sicong He's biophotonics lab. His research combined in vivo two-photon calcium imaging and two-photon optogenetic stimulation in mouse visual cortex with Python-based analysis of neural population activity — linking neuronal function to single-cell transcriptomic profiles and applying CEBRA to learn low-dimensional neural representations. He is co-first author of a Nature Communications paper on physics-informed deep learning for adaptive optics microscopy.

"I tend to dive deep into whatever genuinely interests me. My interests range from jazz drumming, boxing, and tennis to neuroscience — which, of course, takes the top spot. I'm always curious about how things work, especially the brain."

Sicheng Lai

Visiting Student

Sicheng is an undergraduate student in Applied Medical Sciences at University College London (UCL), where she has built strong foundations in human physiology, cellular biology, and data interpretation. She previously worked as an assistant laboratory technician at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), conducting microneedle skin-penetration experiments to evaluate a novel biomedical sensor, and completed a research project on liver regeneration at Cornell's Biomedical Science Pre-College Summer Program. She has also explored AI-driven brain tumor MRI segmentation with CNN/U-Net architectures and is experienced in Python-based data analysis.

"I'm fascinated by what becomes possible when biology, data, and technology come together, while my curiosity often draws me to uncover the logic behind how things work. Outside the lab, my interests are just as varied, ranging from hiphop music and diving to volleyball, and I'm always keen to explore something new."