Yongxu Zhang
Third year PhD student
General Information
| Full Name | Yongxu Zhang |
| yongxu.zhang@yale.edu |
Education
- 01/2021-
PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
- 2019 - 2021
MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Florida
- 2014 - 2018
BS in Physics
Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Experience
- 2020 - 2023
Research Assistant @ Shreya Saxena
University of Florida
- 2022 Summer
Teaching Assistant
University of Florida
- EEL 5840 Fundamentals of Machine Learning
- 2017-2018
Research Assistant
Nankai University
Academic Interests
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Early and reliable classification of behavior from brain-wide neural data, using recurrent neural networks.
- Mitelut C., Zhang Y., Sekino Y., Boyd J., Bolanos F., Swindale N.V., Silasi G., Saxena S.*, Murphy T.* “Mesoscale cortex-wide neural dynamics predict self-initiated actions in mice several seconds prior to movement“, eLife, 2022.
- Zhang, Y.G, Mitelut, P., Arpin, J., Vaillancourt, P., Murphy, T. H., Saxena, S., “Behavioral Classification of Sequential Neural Activity Using Time Varying Recurrent Neural Networks” biorxiv, 2023.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Soccer (Fans of CR7), Swimming, etc.