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.

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


OUR RESEARCH

Latest Update

12/2024 Our paper of high-speed two-photon microscopy with adaptive line-excitation published in Optica is featured in "Optics in 2024" by Optics & Photonics News.

09/2024 Our paper on DeepCaImX, An end-to-end recurrent compressed sensing method to denoise, detect and demix calcium imaging data is published in Nature Machine Intelligence.

09/2024 Prof. Weijian Yang received the Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award from UC Davis Graduate Studies.

08/2024 Our paper of high-speed two-photon microscopy with adaptive line-excitation is featured by a press release from Optica Publishing Group and selected as a cover article in the August 2024 Issue of Optica.

04/2023 Shing-Jiuan won Best Student Paper Award at Optica Biophotonics Congress, for her work on transabdominal fetal pulse oximetry through interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy.

News

10/2022 Prof. Weijian Yang discussed two-photon imaging and optogenetics techniques in SCIENCE | TCCI® Conference.

09/2022 Our learned lensless 3D camera is featured by a press release from Optica Publishing Group.

07/2022 Prof. Weijian Yang is promoted to be an associate professor.

09/2021 Prof. Weijian Yang received the Best Teaching Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2021.

09/2021 Prof. Weijian Yang discussed 3D holographic optogenetics for brain stimulation in AAAS/Science Webinar: Imagining the future of neuromodulation: New applications to treat disease and enhance health.

08/2021 Prof. Weijian Yang received the honor of being a finalist for the Science and PINS Prize for Neuromodulation in 2021.
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08/2021 Our paper on fast 3D imaging using microlens array has been published and selected as an inside front cover article in Laser & Photonics Reviews

05/2021 Kangning Zhang, Feng Tian and Junjie Hu will be presenting their papers in CLEO 2021. Congratulations!

03/2021 Our paper on deep compressed imaging has been published and selected as a cover article in Photonics Research

02/2021 Kangning Zhang, Feng Tian, Junjie Hu, and Shing-Jiuan Liu will be presenting their papers in SPIE Photonics West 2021. Congratulations!

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!

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!