You (Lilian) Cheng

You (Lilian) Cheng

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Join MGH&HMS as a Research Fellow and Become a REC Scholar at MADRC

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Today, I joined the MIND Data Science as a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Sudeshna Das. I hold joint appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Another good news is that I was selected as a REC Scholar of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for the coming year with the appointment also happen to start on July 1st. During the next year, I will work with my primary advisor Dr. Das and my secondary advisor Dr. Deborah Blacker to work on dementia research using computational methods and combined with epidemiology studies. I am really excited to work on projects that combine my neuroscience, geography, and data science backgrounds.

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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).