About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. I am also a member of the Data Science for Mental Health (DS4MH) Group at the Alan Turing Institute. I obtained my PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, working with Prof. Jianfeng Feng and Prof. Edmund T. Rolls.

My research interests lie in applying Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to advance healthcare, with a particular focus on developing computational methods to advance our understanding of brain health, human cognition, and broader healthcare applications. My research leverages large-scale, multi-modal datasets, such as the UK Biobank, the Human Connectome Project (HCP), etc., to gain new insights into brain health and cognitive processes.

News

2025/05: Become a Guest Editor for JoVE Methods Collections on Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience.
2025/02: Initiate new research collaboration with ISTBI at Fudan University and the Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine on neuroimaging and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
2025/01: Join the Data Science for Mental Health Group at the Alan Turing Institute.
2025/01: New paper on plasma proteomic signatures of loneliness and mortality risk published in Nature Human Behaviour (IF: 22.3).
2024/11: Become a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.
2024/09: Start a new role as Assistant Professor of AI in Healthcare at WMG, University of Warwick.
2024/09: New paper on brain activations and connectivities related to episodic memories published in Human Brain Mapping.
2024/07: New paper on behavioural and physiological risk factors for suicide in the UK Biobank published in Nature Human Behaviour (IF: 22.3).
2024/06: Present research at OHBM 2024 on dynamic brain functional lateralization during Chinese natural speech processing using 7T fMRI.
2024/06: New paper on brain activations and connectivities in response to working memory stimuli published in Brain Structure and Function.
2024/04: New paper on associations between dietary patterns and brain health using the UK Biobank large-scale multi-modal dataset published in Nature Mental Health (Altmetric score: 2103; top 1% of its peers), ranking 1st among all 263 publications in the journal and featured by several outlets including The Times and The Washington Post. This work is also featured in The Evidence Base, a LinkedIn newsletter by Scientific Writers Ltd, highlighted as frontier research.
2023/09: New paper on sex differences in human brain functional connectivity and the associations with physical traits, behaviour, and cognitive processing published in Brain Structure and Function.
2023/07: Present research at OHBM 2023 on sex differences in brain structure and function and the associations with behaviour and cognition.
2023/05: Organize a collaborative fMRI experiment on memory storage and recall in the human hippocampus with the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI) and the Zhangjiang International Brain Imaging Center (ZIC) at Fudan University.