Dr. Yao Chen is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degrees in Biophysics from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. Then he worked at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and SUNY – College of Optometry in New York City for his post-doctoral training. He studied neuronal mechanism of visual attention by training monkeys to do attention tasks in different difficulties, and recording neuronal activity in visual cortex with chronically implanted micro-electrode array. His findings were reported as a cover story in Nature Neuroscience. In 2010, he became an Associate Professor in SJTU continuing his research in cognitive neuroscience. His research interests include: Neuronal mechanism of brain cognition functions, such as visual attention, learning and memory; visual function
recovery and visual prosthesis; neural information processing in brain-machine interface; and new methods and techniques for visual information processing in the brain.