Hesheng Liu

Overview of Academic Research

Hesheng Liu Lab focuses on development of brain imaging technologies and aims at improving treatments for patients with brain disorders. The research areas include: (1) Precision brain functional mapping at the single-subject level, and understanding brain networks that underlie cognition, emotion, memory, language and other basic functions. (2) Identifying functional circuits responsible for neurological and psychiatric symptoms and translating these brain imaging markers into clinical practice for treating brain disorders such as Depression, Autism, Stroke, Parkinson’s, etc. (3) Establishing personalized neuromodulation strategies based on cutting-edge imaging technologies Hesheng has 100+ publications on Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, PNAS, and many other top neuroscience journals, with over 13,000 citations. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Brain Informatics, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry, and sits on many academic journals' editorial board.

Education

2003，Tsinghua University，Ph.D 1997，Tsinghua University，B.S 2021-Present Changping Laboratory, Division of Brain Sciences, Chief Scientist 2022-Present Peking University, BIOPIC, Professor 2019-2021 Medical University of South Carolina, Neuroscience, SmartState 2016-2021 Harvard Medical School, Radiology, Associate Professor 2012-2016 Harvard Medical School, Radiology, Assistant Professor 2006-2009 Harvard Medical School, Radiology, Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-2006 Washington State University, Computer Science, Postdoctoral Fellow

PBFS Lab

The pBFS (Personalized Brain Function Sectors) Laboratory is dedicated to revealing the functional mechanisms underlying major brain diseases through advanced personalized brain functional imaging technology and promoting its clinical application.

Jianxun Ren

Principal Investigator

Overview of Academic Research

Education

2024.07 - now: Changping Laboratory, Principal Investigator 2022.07 - 2024.06: Changping Laboratory, Postdoc 2017.09 - 2022.06: Tsinghua University, PhD 2016.09 - 2019.02: Harvard Medical School, Visiting Schola 2013.09 - 2017.06: Tsinghua University, B.Eng (Tsien’ s Excellent Education Program) 2016-2021 Harvard Medical School, Radiology, Associate Professor 2012-2016 Harvard Medical School, Radiology, Assistant Professor 2006-2009 Harvard Medical School, Radiology, Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-2006 Washington State University, Computer Science, Postdoctoral Fellow

Research

I received my B.Eng degree through the Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP), one out of six talent programs at Tsinghua University. During my senior year of my bachelor and into the second year of my doctoral studies, I worked with Prof. Hesheng Liu at Harvard Medical School, where I developed a deep interest in neuroscience research. I completed my Ph.D. training under the guidance of Prof. Luming Li at Tsinghua University, focusing on personalized brain functional imaging and neuromodulation. After graduation, I completed postdoctoral training and now serve as a principal investigator at Changping Laboratory.

I research focuses on: (1) localizing and analyzing brain functional circuits, (2) guiding neuromodulation for brain disorders through personalized brain circuits, with a focus on Parkinson’s disease and post-stroke functional impairments, (3) understanding the mechanisms of neuromodulation, and (4) optimizing neuroimaging processing using deep learning. We employ multimodal technologies such as advanced functional neuroimaging, invasive/non-invasive neuromodulation techniques (such as TMS, DBS, and FUS), deep learning, and genomics. I published over 30 academic papers in high-impact journals, such as Nature Communications, Medical Image Analysis, Annals of Neurology, Brain Stimulation, Human Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex. I seek to collaborate with PhD students and postdocs who are passionate about cognitive neuroscience, self-motivated, and have interdisciplinary backgrounds, to discover novel brain functional circuits and to devise treatments for brain disorders.

Contact Information jianxunren@cpl.ac.cn https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=izroYkEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao