Research

Research Directions

We develop computational methods for measuring, interpreting, and modeling complex biological and neural systems.

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Spatiotemporal Molecular Signal Quantification (AQuA2)

AQuA2 (Activity Quantification and Analysis) is a tool for quantifying spatiotemporal signals across biosensors, cell types, organs, animal models, and imaging modalities of biological fluorescence imaging data.

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Electron Microscopy Connectomics

Building methods for large-scale electron microscopy data analysis, including neural structure reconstruction, organelle and synapse identification, connectome mapping, and scalable data processing.

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3D Embryo Cell Tracking (ITEC)

Developing methods for accurate cell tracking and lineage reconstruction in 3D+t imaging data.

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3D Cell Segmentation (FOCUS-3D)

Developing foundation models for generalizable 3D cell and nuclei instance segmentation across organisms, tissues, and imaging modalities.

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Fluorescence Registration

Developing high-resolution-reference-guided registration, motion correction, and spatiotemporal activity analysis methods for sparse, low-resolution, and dynamic functional imaging data.

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Brain-Computer Interface

Combining neural signal analysis, computational modeling, and intelligent algorithms to study neural representation, decoding, and interaction in brain-computer interfaces.