Junheng Li
Junheng Li
Project title: Investigation of the falling asleep brain dynamics and its closed-loop augmentation strategy
Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman
Location: Level 5, Burlington Danes Building, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, W12 0NN
About Me
I am a CSC (China Scholarship Council) fully-funded PhD student in the Grossman lab in the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London. I graduated from Xidian University in 2017, and then received an MSc with distinction from Imperial in 2018, specialising in engineering and signal processing. Now, I am very eagerly applying my engineering expertise into the neuroscience research, looking to better understand brain signals and machine learning techniques.
Publications
Vinao-Carl ML, Gal-Shohet YR, Rhodes E, Li J, Hampshire A, Sharp DJ, Grossman N. Just a phase? Causal probing reveals spurious phasic dependence of sensory perception. bioRxiv. 2023:2023-08 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.21.554096v1
Qualifications
- 2014-2017: BEng. in Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University
- 2017-2018: MSc in Communications and Signal Processing (Distinction), Imperial College London
Research Interests
My PhD focuses on using novel feature-based signal processing technique combined with machine learning to better understand brain signals and exploring mechanisms. Specifically, we are trying to use neuro-modulation techniques to intervene brain activities and facilitate restorative sleep in dementia patients. Novel feature-based analysis approach will be implemented in such brain activity analysis (normally spatio-temporal EEG), and machine learning algorithms are used to find out mechanisms in neuro-intervention, which in turn directs us to optimise the stimulation for better outcomes.
Conferences
- Presentation in ECR day at Connectome 2021: "The brain dynamics during falling asleep"
- Poster presentation at Computational Neuroscience Society (CNS) conference 2023
Contact details
Email: junheng.li17@imperial.ac.uk