Hao Zheng

Hao grew up in Beijing, China. He attended Tsinghua University for his BS in Mathatics and Physics. In his Junior year, advised by Michael Zhang, he began to realize the diverse associations and gaps between physics, biology and machine learning. Then he joined the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Research (CBICR) in Tsinghua University to earn his PhD. He was advised by Prof. Luping Shi and Prof. Sen Song to develop brain-inspired artificial neural networks. Specifically, he asked how neural coherence helps to form compositional representation of objects in ANNs, and further benefit combinatorial generalization, and how it is related to memory and attention, and emerges naturally by predictive processing. After PhD, he joined Ila and Wang’s lab as postdoc to build computational models of mental disorder. Specifically, he focus on addiction as a window for understanding the origin of adaptivity, how stress and reward influence memory and how memory affects decision making, how multiple neuromodulators orchestrate to shape learning and associate body to mind… He holds the belief that each coin has two sides, and mental disorder provides a valuable chance to look for the principle of the order. In the free time, Hao enjoys ball game and weight lifting, city walk and skating. Sometimes, he can really dance.