Yuxiu SHAO | School of System Science, Beijing Normal University

About Me

I am an assistant professor at the School of Systems Science at Beijing Normal University. Before that, I was a post-doc researcher at Group for Neural Theory, École Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris), where I work with Srdjan Ostojic and the whole incredible ‘LOW-RANK’ team. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience at Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China, under the supervision of Louis Tao. Before that I got my bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering & Automation. So you see, I do have a quite interdisciplinary training background.

As a theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence enthusiast, my passion lies in advancing the understanding of biologically constrained network connectivity and neuronal computations. My research focuses on the intersection of biological and artificial neural networks, with the goal of establishing theoretical frameworks and biologically rational algorithms that can shed light on the structures, dynamics, and relationships between these two domains; as well as identify neural computational mechanisms that support flexible behavior using both artificial networks and analytical framework. Through my work, I aim to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the brain, and, ultimately, to the development of more effective and biologically inspired network systems.

You can find a copy of my CV in the left sidebar

Research Interests

Theoretical Neuroscience: random matrix theory, statistical physics, graph theory, mean-field theory, low-rank RNN, neural population dynamics.
Machine Learning Techniques: reinforcement learning, recurrent neural network, theory of latent dynamics(for lrRNNs).

News

[Sep. 2023] We'll be organizing a workshop at Bernstein this year!
[Jul. 2023] Talk at SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY Seminar in Mathematical Biology.
[Mar. 2023] Poster at COSYNE 2023.
[Feb. 2023] Amazing week at the Les Houches Workshop on the Theory of Neural Networks.
[Jan. 2023] New paper in Plos CB !.
[Jan. 2023] New paper in Current Biology! Collaboration with Manuel Molano-Mazón, Daniel Duque, Guangyu Robert Yang and Jaime de la Rocha.
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Selected Publications [Google Scholar][ORCID]

PLoS CB

Relating local connectivity and global dynamics in recurrent excitatory-inhibitory networks

Yuxiu Shao, Srdjan Ostojic

PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOG(PLoSCB), 2023.

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Recurrent networks endowed with structural priors explain suboptimal animal behavior

Manuel Molano-Mazón,Yuxiu Shao,Daniel Duque, Guangyu Robert Yang, Srdjan Ostojic, Jaime de la Rocha

Current Biology(Curr. Biol.), 2023.

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PLoS CB

Dimensional reduction of emergent spatiotemporal cortical dynamics via a maximum entropy moment closure

Yuxiu Shao, Jiwei Zhang, Louis Tao

PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOG(PLoSCB), 2020.

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Contact

Address: 19 Xinwai Ave, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, Beijing, China, 100875
Office Location: Science & Tech. Building, Beijing Normal University