Yuanyuan Mi

Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University

Email: miyuanyuan@tsinghua.edu.cn

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computational neuroscience

Brain-inspired computing

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

2007 – 2012	PhD, Theoretical Physics, Advisor: Prof. Gang Hu Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University
2003 – 2007	BS, Physics Department of Physics, Shandong Normal University

WORKING EXPERIENCE

2023 - present	Tenured Associate Professor Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University
2019 - 2023	Professor Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University
2016 - 2018	Principal Investigator Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
2015 - 2016	Postdoctoral Researcher, Advisor: Prof. Misha Tsodyks Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, US
2014 - 2016	Postdoctoral Researcher, Advisor: Prof. Misha Tsodyks Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2012 - 2014	Visiting Scientist, Advisor: Prof. Si Wu State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience & Learning, Beijing Normal University
2012 - 2014	Lecturer Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University

HONORS & AWARDS

1.National Natural Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Youth Scholars (2021)

2.‘Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program’ by China Association for Science and Technology (2017)

3.Award of Beijing Nova Program (2017)

4.Fellowship for Outstanding Post-doctoral Fellows from China and India, supported by Israeli government (2014)

RESEARCH SUMMARY

My research areas are Computational Neuroscience and Brain-inspired Computing. Computational Neuroscience is a typical multi-disciplinary field, whose goal to use mathematical models to elucidate brain functions, and based on which, to develop brain-inspired intelligence. I am particularly interested in understanding the general mechanisms of processing spatial and temporal information in the brain. The projects I have been working on include: the capacity of working memory, the manipulation of working memory via invasive perturbation, the network encoding of rhythmic information, the compensation of neural transmission delay, and the reconstruction of network structure using neural data. Based on these neural models, I also developed several brain-inspired computational algorithms, including the algorithm for fast motion pattern recognition and the algorithm for tracking moving object anticipatively.

Up to now, I have published more than 40 scientific papers, including top journals and conferences in the fields of Neuroscience, Physics and AI, such as Neuron, PNAS, Nature Communication, Progress in Neurobiology, eLife, Neural Networks, Physical Review E, NeurIPS etc. I was invited to give talks in many international and national important conferences. I also have collaborations with industries to explore the potential applications of the brain-inspired algorithms I have developed (such as the collaboration with Huawei Technology Co., Ltd on key words spotting).

PUBLICATIONS

1.Tianhao Chu^#, Zilong Ji ^#, Junfeng Zuo , Yuanyuan Mi , Wen-Hao Zhang, Tiejun Huang, Daniel Bush, Neil Burgess, Si Wu, Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession, and procession, Elife 12, RP87055

2.Jiaqi Zhou^#, Liping Gong^#, Xiaodong Huang , Chunlai Mu, Yuanyuan Mi*,The synaptic correlates of serial position effects in sequential working memory, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 18, 1430244

3.Li Zhao^#, Meiting Zhang^#, Yajun Zhang, Yuanyuan Mi*, Zhe Yuan*, and Ke Xia, Neuroscience-inspired information-integration system based on stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions ,Physical Review Applied ,21 (6), 064040

4.Zhaoyang Zhang^#, Xinyu Wang^#, Haihong Li, Yang Chen, Zhilin Qu, Yuanyuan Mi*, Gang Hu*, Uncovering hidden nodes and hidden links in complex dynamic networks, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 67 (4), 240511

5.Xiaolong Zou^#, Zhikun Chu^#, Qinghai Guo, Jie Cheng, Bo Ho, Si Wu, Yuanyuan Mi*，Learning and processing the ordinal information of temporal sequences in recurrent neural circuits，NeurIPS，2023

6.Xiaohan Lin^#, Liyuan Li, Boxin Shi, Tiejun Huang, Yuanyuan Mi, Si Wu*, Slow and Weak Attractor Computation Embedded in Fast and Strong EI Balanced Neural Dynamics，NeurIPS,2023

7.Zhaoyang Zhang#, Xinyu Wang, Haihong Li, Yang Chen, Zhilin Qu, Yuanyuan Mi*, Gang Hu*, Uncovering hidden nodes and hidden links in complex dynamic networks, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. 67: 240511

8.Xinyu Wang^#, Yuanyuan Mi^#, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yang Chen, Gang Hu*, Haihong Li*, Reconstructing distant interactions of multiple paths between perceptible nodes in dark networks, Physical Review E, 106 (1), 014302, 2022

9.Xiao Liu^#, Xiaolong Zou, Zilong Ji, Gengshuo Tian, Yuanyuan Mi, Tiejun Huang, KY Michael Wong*, Si Wu*, Neural feedback facilitates rough-to-fine information retrieval, Neural Networks, 151, 349-364, 2022

10.Jiaqi Li^#, Qiaoli Huang^#, Qiming Han, Yuanyuan Mi*, Huan Luo*，Temporally coherent perturbation of neural dynamics during retention alters human multi-item working memory, Progress in Neurobiology, 2021, 201, 102023

11.Xiaohan Lin^#, Xiaolong Zou^#, Zilong Ji, Si Wu*, Yuanyuan Mi*, A Brain-inspired Computational Model for Spatio-temporal Information Processing Learning Systems, Neural Networks, 143, 74-87, 2021

12.Xinyu Wang^#, Zhaoyang Zhang, Haihong Li, Yang Chen, Yuanyuan Mi*, Gang Hu*, Exploring node interaction relationship in complex networks by using high-frequency signal injection, Phys. Revs. E, 2021, 103, 022317

13.Tianhao Chu, Si Wu, Yuanyuan Mi, An unified neural circuit model for travelling wave, phase precession, and anticipative tracking, Cosyne 2021

14.Binyou Wang^#, Bilan Tan^#, Xiaolong Zou^#, Xiaohan Lin, Changwei Huang, Si Wu, Yuanyuan Mi*, A Brain-inspired Decision-making Model for Spatio-temporal Pattern Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics, 2021, 554-559

15.Chaoming Wang^#, Risheng Lian, Xingsi Dong, Yuanyuan Mi*, Si Wu*, A neural network model with gap junction for topological detection，Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020 .09.02, 14:571982

16.张朝阳^#，陈阳，弭元元，胡岗*，从数据到结构—动力学网络重构，中国科学，2020年01期，第6-22页.

17.Qi Zheng^#, Xiaorui Zhu, Yuanyuan Mi, Zhe Yuan*, and Ke Xia, Recurrent Neural Networks Made of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions，AIP Advances, 10（2）, 2020.01.28.

18.Liutao Yu^#，Tianhao Chu, Zhao Zhao, Yuanyuan Mi, Yuchao Yang, Si Wu* , Spiking Continuous Attractor Neural Networks with Spike Frequency Adaptation for Anticipative Tracking, IEEE Xplore, 27 April 2020

19.Qi Zheng^#, Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaorui Zhu, Zhe Yuan*, Ke Xia, Anticipative Tracking with the Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity of Spintronic Devices, Physical Review Applied, (2020) 14, 044060

20.Meng Wang^#, …, Yuanyuan Mi, … Xiaowei Chen*, Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex, Nature Communications, 11(1),4361, 2020.

21.Zhaoyang Zhang^#, Yang Chen, Yuanyuan Mi, Gang Hu*, Reconstruction of dynamic networks with time- delayed interactions in presence of fast-varying noises, Physical Review E, 99, 042311 ,99(4), 2019

22.Xiao Liu^#, Xiaolong Zou, Zilong Ji, Gengshuo Tian, Yuanyuan Mi, Tiejun Huang, K. Y. Michael Wong, Si Wu*, Push-pull Feedback Implements Hierarchical Information Retrieval Efficiently, NeurIPS, 32，2019

23.Zilong Ji^#, Xiaolong Zou, Xiao Liu, Tiejun Huang, Yuanyuan Mi, Si Wu*, Neural Information Processing in Hierarchical Prototypical Networks, International Conference On Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 603-611, 2018

24.Xiaolong Zou^#, Zilong Ji, Xiao Liu, Tiejun Huang, Yuanyuan Mi, Si Wu*，Learning, Storing, and Disentangling Correlated Patterns in Neural Networks，ICONIP, 506-514, 2018

25.Luozheng Li^#, Yuanyuan Mi, Wenhao Zhang, Dahui Wang, Si Wu*, Dynamic Information Encoding with Dynamical Synapses in Neural Adaptation, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 12, 2018

26.Yuanyuan Mi^#, Mikhail Katkov, Misha Tsodyks*, Synaptic Correlates of Working Memory Capacity, Neuron, 93(2), 323–330, 2017

27.Xiaolong Zou^#, Zilong Ji, Xiao Liu, Yuanyuan Mi, K Y Michael Wong, Si Wu*, Learning a continuous attractor neural network from real images. ICONIP, 2017

28.Darinka Trubutschek^#,*, Sebastien Marti, Andres Ojeda, Jean-Remi King, Yuanyuan Mi, Misha Tsodyks, Stanislas Dehaene, A theory of working memory without consciousness or sustained activity, eLife, 6:e23871, 2017

29.弭元元*^#，胡岗，吴思，神经系统编码时间节律信息的机制，中国药理学与毒理学杂志，31(11), 2017

30.Yuanyuan Mi^#, Xiaohan Lin, Si Wu*, Neural Computations in a Dynamical System with Multiple Time Scales. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 10, 96, 2016

31.Luozheng Li^#, Wenhao Zhang, Yuanyuan Mi, Dahui Wang, Wu Si*, Dynamical Information Encoding in Neural Adaptation, 38^th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 3060-3063, 2016

32.Si Wu^#,*, K Y Michael Wong , C C Alan Fung , Yuanyuan Mi , Wenhao Zhang, Continuous Attractor Neural Networks: Candidate of a Canonical Model for Neural Information Representation. F1000 Faculty Review 5(156) 2016

33.Yuanyuan Mi^#, Yan Xia, Qi Gao, Si Wu*, Anticipative Tracking in Two-Dimensional Continuous Attractor Neural Networks, Organization for Computational Neurosciences 2015; BMC Neuroscience, 18, P288, 16, 2015

34.Zhaoyang Zhang^#, Zhigang Zheng, Haijing Niu, Yuanyuan Mi, Si Wu, and Gang Hu* , Solving the inverse problem of noise-driven dynamic networks，Physical Review E , 91(1), 012814, 2015

35.Yuanyuan Mi^#, C C Alan Fung, K Y Michael Wong, Si Wu*, Spike Frequency Adaptation Implements Anticipative Tracking in Continuous Attractor Neural Networks. NeurIPS 2014, 27, 2014

36.Yuanyuan Mi^#, Luozheng Li, Dahui Wang, Si Wu*, A synaptical story of persistent activity with graded lifetime in a neural system, NeurIPS 27, 2014

37.Zhang Li-Sheng^#, Gu Wei-Feng, Hu Gang*, and Mi Yuan-Yuan*, Network dynamics and its relationships to topology and coupling structure in excitable complex networks，Chin. Phys. B，23(10), 000001, 2014

38.Zhang Li-Sheng^#, Liao Xu-Hong, Mi Yuan-Yuan, Qian Yu, Hu Gang*, Attractive target wave patterns in complex networks consisting of excitable nodes，Chin. Phys. B，23(7) , 078906, 2014

39.Yuanyuan Mi^#, Xuhong Liao, Xuhui Huang, Lisheng Zhang, Weifeng Gu, Gang Hu*, Si Wu*, Long-period rhythmic synchronous firing in a scale-free network. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110(50), E4931–E4936, 2013

40.Xiaodong Huang^#,*, X. Liu, Yuanyuan Mi, The Fourier series approach to investigate phase-locking behaviors of the sinoatrial node cell. Europhys. Lett. 104 (3), 38002, 2013

41.Xiaodong Huang^#, Xuemei Liu, Lixian Zheng, Yuanyuan Mi, Yu Qian*, Effects of pacing magnitudes and forms on bistability width in a modeled ventricular tissue, Physical Review E 88(1), 012711, 2013

42.Weifeng Gu^#, Xuhong Liao, Lisheng Zhang, Xuhui Huang, Gang Hu*, Yuanyuan Mi*, Synchronous firings in small-world networks of excitable nodes, Europhys. Lett. 102(2), 28001 2013

43.QIAN Yu^#，LI Wei，HUANG Xiao-Dong, ZHANG Zhao-Yang*，Mi Yuan-Yuan*, Spiral Dynamics In Excitable Medium Induced By External Periodic Modulation， Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos 23(5). 1350082, 2013

44.QIAN Yu^#，LI Wei，HUANG Xiao-Dong, Mi Yuan-Yuan，ZHANG Zhao-Yang，The influence of control parameters on the competition between spiral waves and target waves. Commun. Theor. Phys. 58(2) 307-312, 2012

45.Lisheng Zhang^#, Xuhong Liao, Yuanyuan Mi, Weifeng Gu, Gang Gu*, Oscillatory dynamics and oscillation death in complex networks consisting of both excitatory and inhibitory nodes, Commun. Theor. Phys. 57(6), 1023–1032, 2012

46.Lisheng Zhang^#, Weifeng. Gu, Xuhong Liao, Yang Wang, Gang Hu*, Yuanyuan Mi*, Dynamical and formation of oscillatory patterns in complex directed networks consisting of excitable nodes, Europhys. Lett, 99(1) 18005, 2012

47.Yuanyuan Mi^#, Lisheng Zhang, Xiaodong Huang, Yu Qian, Gang Hu* and Xuhong Liao*, Complex networks with large numbers of labelable attractors, Europhys. Lett. 95(5), 58001, 2011

48.Xuhong Liao^#, Qinzhi Xia, Yu Qian, Lisheng Zhang, Gang Hu* and Yuanyuan Mi*, Pattern formation in oscillatory complex networks consisting of excitable nodes, Physical Review E 83(5), 056204, 2011

49.Xiaodong Huang^#, Yuanyuan Mi, Yu Qian, Gang Hu*, Phase-locking behaviors in an ionic model of sinoatrial node cell and tissue, Physical Review E 83(6), 061917, 2011

50.Yu Qian^#, Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaodong Huang*, Control of spiral wave breakup by spatiotemporal modulation, Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos 21(5), 1341, 2011

51.Xuhong Liao^#, Yu Qian, Yuanyuan Mi, Qinzhi Xia, Xiaoqing Huang and Gang Hu*, Oscillation sources and wave propagation paths in complex networks consisting of excitable nodes, Front. Phys. 6 (1), 124-132, 2011

52.Yu Qian^#, Canjun Wang, H. S. Shi, Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaodong Huang*. Self-sustained target waves in excitable media with only a long-range link. Chin. Phys. B 20(10), 108201, 2011

53.Yu Qian^#, Xuhong Liao, Xiaodong Huang, Yuanyuan Mi, Lisheng Zhang and Gang Hu*, Diverse self-sustained oscillatory patterns and their mechanisms in excitable small-world networks, Physical Review E 82 (2), 026107, 2010