Yuxiao Yang is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science & Brain-Machine Integration, Zhejiang University. He has published 18 top journal and conference papers in neural and biomedical engineering and wrote 3 book chapters on brain-computer interface. His publications included 2 Nature papers—one cover article in Nature Biomedical Engineering and one cover article in Nature Biotechnology. These two cover articles are among the only five BCI-related Nature cover articles in the past five years. He also published 7 papers in Journal of Neural Engineering (JNE). His work has attracted much media attention including The Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, and New Scientist. He won the celebrated Annual BCI Award in 2019 and is one of the only two Chinese winners in the past ten years. He also won the IEEE EMBS Student Paper Competition in 2015.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Treatment of Brain Disorders, Neural Encoding and Decoding, Adaptive Neuromodulation, Artificial Intelligence

EDUCATION 

2019/08 - 2013/07    B.Eng., Electrical and Electronics Engineering

                                 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2013/08 - 2019/12    Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

                                 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

                                 Advisor: Prof. Maryam M. Shanechi

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2019/09 – 2020/07     Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

                                   University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2020/08 – 2022/05     Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

                                    University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA