You (Lilian) Cheng

You (Lilian) Cheng

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Attend Neurohackademy 2021

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In the past two weeks, I attended Neurohackademy 2021 - a summer school for neuroscience and data science. The first week was a series of well-designed lectures and workshops on cloud computing, statistics, big data methods, open science, etc. In the second week (neurohack week), I worked as a member of the dicom-parser team (with team leader Zvi Baratz from Tel Aviv University and Michał Szczepanik from Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) to help with documentation and data testing of the open source Python package - dicom_parser. This is the first time I contribute to an open source package, and I’m sure that it will just be the start of the journey.

Neurohackademy on Sparkle

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Present at AAIC 2023

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This week, I attended the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) by presenting a poster “Predicting Brain Amyloid Status Using the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function” (virtually by me, in person in Armsterdam, NL by my co-author Prof. Hiroko Dodge). This is my first presentation at Alzheimer’s conference and hope it’s a good start.

New paper on MRI analysis published in PNAS

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My co-authored new paper regarding MRI analyses was accepted by PNAS. The research introduced SynthSeg+, an AI segmentation suite that provides robust analysis on clinical MRI scans. The tool is available on Freesurfer.

Attend BrightFocus Alzheimer’s Fast Track Workshop and Present at Sfn 2022 in San Diego

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This month, I attended the BrightFocus AD Fast Track 2022 workshop in San Diego (Thanks to the support of BrightFocus Travel Diversity Fellowship). The immersive workshop gave me a good head start on cutting-edge research related to Alzheimer’s dementia. Afterwards, I attended Sfn 2022 and gave a talk titled “Evidence for a distributed head direction and travel trajectory system in the human brain during active navigation” at the nanosymposium “Memory Encoding and Spatial Navigation” on Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 16).