Lab Members

Meet our group

Principal Investigator


Qi Mao

I am now an associate professor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China. I have obtained my P.H.D degree from Peking University in July, 2021. (Institute of Digital Media which is directed by Prof. Wen Gao) I received the B.E. degree in Digital Media Technology and B.A. degree in Journalism in 2016 from Communication University of China. My current research interests lie in AIGC (Image/Video Controllable Generation and Editing) Image/Video Compression based on Generative Models. I am supervised by Prof. Siwei Ma and have been a visiting Ph.D. student at Vision and Learning Lab at University of California, Merced, under the supervision of Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang I am lucky to have opportunities to work with Dr. Hsin-Ying Lee (Snap research), Dr. Hung-Yu Tseng (Meta), Dr.Jia-Bin Huang (University of Maryland), Dr. Shiqi Wang (City University of Hong Kong), Dr. Xinfeng Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Dr. Shanshe Wang (Peking University)



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Yuanhang Li

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Naifeng Xue

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary



Graduate Students





Rundong Chao

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Yujie He

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Tinghan Yang

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary



Undergraduate Students





Lan Chen

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary



Zhen Fang

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Zejie Tian

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Zijian Wang

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Yangyi Cao

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary






Wenliang Wei

neuroscientist at Duke, where he did his postdoctoral training with Michael Platt, working on the neurobiology of reward and decision-making. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. In 2018, he moved back to the School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and in 2022, he moved to the Department of Neurobiology. In addition, he maintains secondary




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