Curriculum Vitae

Name Chung-Chuan Lo (羅中泉) Address Institute of Systems Neuroscience
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan
Email
Telephone +886-3-574-2014
Webpage http://life.nthu.edu.tw/~lablcc

Education

1998-2004 Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Ph. D. in Physics
Thesis title: Statistical Physics Approaches for Understanding Sleep-Wake Transitions
Thesis advisor: H. Eugene Stanley, Professor of Physics
1995-1997 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
M. S. in Physics
Thesis title: Study of the Effect of Site Mutation on the Structural Stability of Cobra Cardiotoxin by Time-Resolved Fluorescence
Thesis advisor: Wunshain Fann, Joint Assistant Professor of Physics.
1991-1995 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B. S. in Physics
Project title: The Effect of Noises on a Cascaded Lorenz System
Project advisor: Yih-Yuh Chen, Associate Professor of Physics.

Employment

2009-present National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant professor, Institute of Systems Neuroscience
2008-2009 National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant professor, Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology
2006-2008 Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Postdoc assistant (Supervisor, Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang).
Neural network modeling
2004-2006 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Postdoc fellow (Supervisor, Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang).
Neural network modeling
1997-1998 Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Assistant (Supervisor, Dr. W.-S. Fann)
Experiments on time-resolved fluorescence of conformational changes in protein.

Honors and Awards

2004-2007 Postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience (Sloan-Swartz foundation)
2003 American Physical Society travel awards for Annual Meeting.
2001 Sigma Xi award, achievement in graduate research at Boston University.
2001 Travel scholarship for Sleep Medicine Conference, Marburg, Germany
1998-2003 Boston University Ph.D. research fellowship (2000-2003); teaching fellowship (1998-2000).
1991-1995 Ministry of Education (Taiwan) bachelor degree scholarship for outstanding students.

Professional Services

2011-present Editorial board of Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
2011-2012 Technical program committee for Symposium on Engineering, Medicine and Biology Applications & International workshop on Bio-inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices (Feb 11-13, 2012, Taichung, Taiwan)
2009-present Member of the task force for the multi-scale modeling, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF)

Publications

  1. C.-C. Lo, L. Boucher, M. Pare, J. D. Schall and X.-J. Wang. Proactive inhibitory control and attractor dynamics in countermanding action: a spiking neural circuit model. J. Neurosci. 29, 9059-9071 (2009).

  2. C.-C. Lo and X.-J. Wang. Cortico-basal ganglia circuit mechanism for a decision threshold in reaction time tasks. Nat. Neurosci. 9, 957-963 (2006).

  3. C.-C. Lo, Chou T, Penzel T, Scammell TE, Strecker RE, Stanley HE and Ivanov PCh, Common scale-invariant pattern of sleep-wake transitions across mammalian species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 50, 17545-17548 (2004)

  4. T. Penzel, J. W. Kantelhardt, C.-C. Lo, K. Voigt and C. F. Vogelmeier. Dynamics of Heart Rate and Sleep Stages in Normals and Patients with Sleep Apnea. Neuropsychopharmacology 28, S48-S53 (2003)

  5. C.-C. Lo, L. A. N. Amaral, S. Havlin, P. Ch. Ivanov, T. Penzel, J.-H. Peter and H. E. Stanley. Dynamics of sleep-wake transitions during sleep. Europhysics Letters 57 (5), 625-631 (2002).

  6. P. Ch. Ivanov and C.-C. Lo. Stochastic Approaches to Modeling of Physiological Rhythms, in Modeling Biomedical signals, edit. G. Nardulli & S. Stramaglia. World Scientific (2002).

  7. C.-C. Lo, J.-H. Hsu, Y.-C. Sheu, C.-M. Chiang, W.-G. Wu, W.-S. Fann and P.-H. Tsao. Effect of D57N mutation on membrane activity and molecular unfolding of cobra cardiotoxin. Biophysical Journal 75 (5), 2382-2388 (1998).

Conference Talks

2011 International Organization of Chinese Physics and Astronomers Annual meeting, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Invited)
2010 International Workshop on Bio-inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices, Hsinchu, Taiwan (Invited)
2010 Neuroinformatics 2010 (INCF Congress), Kobe, Japan (Invited)
2009 Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2007 Annual Meeting of Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
2004 Annual Meeting of Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.
2003 American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA.
2002 The 2nd APCTP and 6th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics Lattice Models and Complex Systems, Taipei, Taiwan.
American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
2001 84th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.

Popular Articles and Journal Reviews About My Research

  1. Benedicte Ballanger, Top-down control of saccades as part of a generalized model of proactive inhibitory control Journal of Neurophysiology published 26 August 2009, 10.1152/jn.00717.2009
  2. Roozbeh Kiani, Timothy D Hanks & Michael N Shadlen. When is enough enough? Nature Neuroscience 9, 681-683 (2006).
  3. Taylor McNeil, Bring on the Sandman. Bostonia. Summer 2002.
    (http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2002/summer/explorations/sleep/index.html)
  4. Michael Brooks, Feature: Snooze Control. New Scientist p. 173, 38-40, Feb. 23, 2002.
  5. "Tired? Well, you woke up 35 times last night", The Daily Mail, p. 35, Feb. 21, 2002.
  6. "Sleep well last night? You woke up 37 times", The Mirror, Feb. 21, 2002.
  7. Complex Digest issue 51, Dec. 19 2001. (http://www.comdig.de/ComDig01-51/#12)