Work Experience
Bachelor of Physics, Lanzhou University (1995), Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Nanjing University (2001), Postdoctoral in Computational Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University (2004), Associate Scientist of Computational Neuroscience at Yale University (2010). Professor in the Center for Computational Systems Biology and School of Life Sciences, Fudan University (2011-present), PI at the State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology. Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (2018).
Research Interests
1. Computational neuroscience and experimental cognitive neuroscience
2. Neural Information Processing Mechanism
3. Neuroenergetics and Metabolism
4. Ionic and Synaptic mechanism underlying Learning and Memory
5. Neural network mechanisms of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy
Awards
1. winner of the “Eastern Scholar Tracking Program”（2017）
Selected Publications
1. Du MM, *Yu YGand *Wu Y, (2018) Astrocytic Kir4.1 channels and gap junctions account for spontaneous epileptic seizure, PLoS Comp.Biol.14(3): e1005877
2. *Yu YG, Herman P, Rothman DL, Agarwal D and Hyder F, (2017) Evaluating the gray and white matter energy budgets of human brain function,Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 0271678X17708691, DOI: 10.1177/0271678X17708691
3. *Yu, Y.G., Migliore, M, Hines ML, and Shepherd GM Sparse coding and lateral inhibition arising from balanced and unbalanced dendrodendritic excitation and inhibition,Journal of Neuroscience, 34: 13701-13713, (2014).
4. McCormick DA, Shu Y andYu YG(2007) Hodgkin and Huxley model—still standing?Nature. 445: E1-E2.
5. *Yu YG, Richard RD and Lee TS (2005) Preference of sensory neural coding for 1/f signals.Phys Rev Lett, 94, 1081031-4.
