Yuehua Xu, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow

E-mail: yue.xuyuehua#gmail.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Characterizing the brain mechanism of individual differences in functional networks during early development

  • Exploring the brain network mechanism in typical and atypical development

EDUCATION

  • 2014.09-present: Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University

  • 2010.09-2014. 06: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Information Science & Engineering, Lanzhou University

  • 2012.09-2014. 06: B.Sc. in Applied Psychology, School of Education, Lanzhou University

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • 2020.09-Present:  Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China

FUNDING

  • The structural and function coupling during early brain development based on multi-modal MRI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 82102131, 01/2022-12/2024, Role on project: PI.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Xu Y#, Cao M#, Liao X, Xia M, Wang X, Jeon T, Ouyang M, Chalak L, Rollins N, Huang H*, He Y* (2019) Development and emergence of individual variability in the functional connectivity architecture of the preterm human brain. Cerebral Cortex 29(10): 4208-4222.

  • Zhao T#, Xu Y#, He Y* (2019) Graph theoretical modeling of baby brain networks. NeuroImage 185:711-727. [Cover Paper]

  • Wang Q, Xu Y, Zhao T, Xu Z, He Y*, Liao X (2021) Individual uniqueness in the neonatal functional connectome. Cereb Cortex 31(8):3701-3712.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • 2019: Ph.D. National Scholarship Award, China’s Ministry of Education

  • 2018: Ph.D. National Scholarship Award, China’s Ministry of Education

  • 2018: Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Beijing Normal University

  • 2017: Merit Abstract Award for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, OHBM