Merging the boundarybetween Science and Engineering

We develop advanced optical methods and neurotechnologies to interrogate and modulate brain activity, with a goal to understand how neural circuits organize and function. As an important step towards deciphering how the brain works, our work could lead to effective solutions to treat brain diseases and enhance human learning capability. Our research is highly interdisciplinary, combining knowledge in biophotonics, integrated optoelectronics, nanotechnologies, statistics as well as neuroscience and neuroengineering.
OUR RESEARCH

Latest Update

We are seeking highly motivated students, postdocs and visiting scholars to join our lab!

07/2020 Our collaborative work with Prof. Min Zhao's lab on intracranial alternating current stimulation to facilitate neurogenesis in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease has been pulished in Alzheimer's Research and Therapy

05/2020 Kangning Zhang and Feng Tian will be presenting their papers in CLEO 2020. Congratulations!

News

09/2019 Shing-Jiuan Liu and Yunyang Li joined our lab as PhD students. Welcome!

07/2019 Junjie Hu joined our lab as PhD students. Welcome!

07/2019 Yuanyou Xu and Yile Sun from Zhejiang University joined our lab for summer research as part of the Global Research Experience in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program. Welcome!

06/2019 Our paper on controlling visually guided behavior by holographic recalling of cortical ensembles is published on Cell.

05/2019 Our paper on two-photon volumetric calcium imaging of cortical circuits with two colors is published on Cell Reports.

03/2019 Our commentary on new methods for nanoscale brain mapping is published on Nature Biotechnology.

02/2019 Prof. Weijian Yang received NSF Early CAREER Award for the research project “Agile multiplexed multiphoton microscope for interrogation of neural circuits”.

11/2018 Yihang Jiao joined our lab as a master student. Welcome!

09/2018 Feng Tian and Kangning Zhang joined our lab as PhD students. Welcome!

07/2018 Yueyang Pan from Zhejiang University joined our lab for summer research as part of the Global Research Experience in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program. Welcome!

07/2018 Zhihai Lin from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) joined our lab for summer research. Welcome!