You (Lilian) Cheng

You (Lilian) Cheng

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Successfully Defend my Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences!

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This morning, I successfully defended my Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences with a Concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience! My dissertation is titled “Travel Direction as a Fundamental Component of Human Navigation: Integrating Psychophysics, Neuroimaging, and Computational Modeling Approaches”. The Spatial Neuroscience Lab had a celebration in the CNLM courtyard after my defense.

I’m so excited to eventually receive my doctoral degree after such a long and unique journey as a graduate student. Let me end the post with a proverb “If there is a will, there is a way.”

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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).