You (Lilian) Cheng

You (Lilian) Cheng

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Present and Volunteer at ICML 2022

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I’m very happy to present my work of simulating the travel direction system in humans using a recurrent neural network as a poster presentation at the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Un-Workshop at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (see here for a video recording). Although the virtual format has restricted my ways of receiving audience feedback, I still quite enjoyed sharing my research with the women in machine learning community. Additionally, I volunteered to assist with moderating at the virtual mentoring session. Happy that I’ve participated in the workshop in various ways.

It’s interesting that every time I attended a mentorship panel I always get some inspiring tips - no end of learning new things! One of the impressive suggestion I received this time is from Dr. Po-Ling Loh about treating your doctoral degree as a driver’s license. And yup, that’s just the beginning of my journey :)

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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).