Curriculum Vitae
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
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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.
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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.
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Employment
2024-present
| National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Professor, Institute of Systems Neuroscience
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2018-2024
| National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Professor & Director, Institute of Systems Neuroscience
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2014-2018
| National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Associate professor, Institute of Systems Neuroscience
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2009-2014
| National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant professor, Institute of Systems Neuroscience
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2008-2009
| National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant professor, Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology
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2006-2008
| Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Postdoc assistant (Supervisor, Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang).
Neural network modeling
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2004-2006
| Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Postdoc fellow (Supervisor, Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang).
Neural network modeling
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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.
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Honors and Awards
2021
| Future Tech Breakthrough Award (未來科技突破獎), Future Tech Expo 2021, Taipei, Taiwan (team award)
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2020
| Future Tech Breakthrough Award (未來科技突破獎), Future Tech Expo 2020, Taipei, Taiwan (team award)
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2019
| Future Tech Breakthrough Award (未來科技突破獎), Future Tech Expo 2019, Taipei, Taiwan (team award)
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2017
| Open Science Prize Finalist (team award)
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2017
| National Tsing Hua University College of Life Science Research Award |
2014
| National Tsing Hua University Publication Award
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2011
| Best paper award. Symposium on Engineering, medicine and biology application, Taichung,
Taiwan
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2010
| National Tsing Hua University Publication Award
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2004-2007
| Postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience (Sloan-Swartz foundation)
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2003
| American Physical Society travel awards for Annual Meeting.
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2001
| Sigma Xi award, achievement in graduate research at Boston University.
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2001
| Travel scholarship for Sleep Medicine Conference, Marburg, Germany
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1998-2003
| Boston University Ph.D. research fellowship (2000-2003); teaching
fellowship (1998-2000).
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1991-1995
| Ministry of Education (Taiwan) bachelor degree scholarship for
outstanding students.
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Professional Services
2020-present
| Chairman of Taiwanese Society for Computational Neuroscience (https://www.sfcn.org.tw/)
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2012-present
| Review editor of Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience
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2011-present
| Review editor of Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
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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)
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2009-2013
| Member of the task force for the multi-scale modeling, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF)
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Academic Publications
(*corresponding author)
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Kai-Yi Hsu, Chi-Tin Shih*, Nan-Yow Chen*, Chung-Chuan Lo* (2024) Automated neuropil segmentation of fluorescent images for Drosophila brains. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (accpeted).
- Ning Chang, Yi-Chen Tsai, Wei J. Chen, Chung-Chuan Lo*, Hsiao-Han Chang* (2024). COVID-19 control measures unexpectedly increased the duration of stay at High Speed Rail stations during the first community outbreak in Taiwan. BMC Public Health 24.1: 1-7.
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Alexander White, Chou P. Hung, Andre V. Harrison, Chung-Chuan Lo* (2023). Neuromorphic luminance-edge contextual preprocessing of naturally obscured targets. Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems p.1-8.
- Ning Chang, Hsuan-Pei Huang and Chung-Chuan Lo*. (2023)
Global inhibition in head-direction neural circuits: a systematic comparison between connectome-based spiking neural circuit models. Journal of Comparative Physiology A1-15
- Anton P.J.Stampfl et al. (2023). SYNAPSE: An international roadmap to large brain imaging. Physics Reports 999, 1-60.
- Alexander J. White, Chou P. Hung*, Chung-Chuan Lo* (2022). HDR luminance normalization via contextual facilitation in highly recurrent spiking neural networks. Unmanned Systems Technology XXIV SPIE, p. 138-150.
- Kuan-Lin Feng, Ju-Yun Weng, Chun-Chao Chen, Mohammed Bin Abubaker, Hsuan-Wen Lin, Ching-Che Charng, Chung-Chuan Lo, J. Steven de Belle, Tim Tully, Cheng-Chang Lien*, Ann-Shyn Chiang* (2021). Neuropeptide F inhibits dopamine neuron interference of long-term memory consolidation in Drosophila. iScience 24.12: 103506.
- Yi-Shiuan Liu, Chih-Yu Yang, Ping-Fang Chiu, Hui-Chu Lin, Chung-Chuan Lo, Alan Szu-Han Lai, Chia-Chu Chang, Oscar Kuang-Sheng Lee* (2021). Machine Learning Analysis of Time-Dependent Features for Predicting Adverse Events During Hemodialysis Therapy: Model Development and Validation Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 23.9: e27098.
- Rui Han, Hsuan-Pei Huang, Wan-Ju Lee, Chia-Lung Chuang, Hung-Hsiu Yen, Wei-Tse Kao, Hui-Yun Chang, Chung-Chuan Lo* (2021). Coordination through inhibition: control of stabilizing and updating circuits in spatial orientation working memory. eNeuro 8.5 [Selected as a cover art]
- Zuo-Wei Yeh, Chia-Hua Hsu, Chen-Fu Yeh, Wen-Chieh Wu, Cheng-Te Wang, Chung-Chuan Lo, Kea-Tiong Tang* (2021). POPPINS : A Population-Based Digital Spiking Neuromorphic Processor with Integer Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) IEEE, p.1-5.
- Patricia Parlevliet*, Andrey Kanaev, Chou P Hung, Andreas Schweiger, Frederick D Gregory, Ryad Benjamin Benosman, Guido C H E De Croon, Yoram Gutfreund, Chung-Chuan Lo, Cynthia F Moss (2021). Autonomous Flying with Neuromorphic Sensing. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15:672161 (PERSPECTIVE article)
- Hsin-Yu Wu, Wei-Tse Kao, Harrison Hao-Yu Ku, Cheng-Te Wang*, Chih-Cheng Hsieh, Ren-Shuo Liu, Kea-Tiong Tang and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2021). A Bio-Inspired Motion Detection Circuit for the Computation of Optical Flow: The Spatial-Temporal Filtering Reichardt Model. 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) IEEE, p.1-4.
- Wen-Chieh Wu, Chen-Fu Yeh, Alexander James White, Cheng-Te Wang*, Zuo-Wei Yeh, Chih-Cheng Hsieh, Ren-Shuo Liu, Kea-Tiong Tang and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2021). Integer Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire (IQIF): A Neuron Model for Digital Neuromorphic Systems. 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) IEEE, p.1-4.
- Chen-Zhi Su, Kuan-Ting Chou, Hsuan-Pei Huang, Chung-Chuan Lo*, Daw-Wei Wang* (2021). Identification of Neuronal Polarity by Node-Based Machine Learning. Neuroinformatics 1-16
- Rui Han, Tzu-Min Wei, Szu-Chiao Tseng and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2021). Characterizing approach behavior of Drosophila melanogaster in Buridan's paradigm. PLoS One 16.1: e0245990
- Hao Chi, Lee Sun, Ren-Huei Shiu, Rui Han, Chien-Ping Hsieh, Tzu-Min Wei, Chung-Chuan Lo, Hui-Yun Chang and Tzu-Kang Sang* (2020). Cleavage of human tau at Asp421 inhibits hyperphosphorylated tau induced pathology in a Drosophila model. Scientific reports 10.1:1-15
- Kuo-Wei Kao and Chung-Chuang Lo* (2020). Short term depression, presynaptic inhibition and local neuron diversity play key functional roles in the insect antennal lobe. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 48:213–227(2020)
- Chi-Tin Shih*#, Yen-Jen Lin#, Cheng-Te Wang, Ting-Yuan Wang, Chih-Chen Chen, Ta-Shun Su, Chung-Chuang Lo*, and Ann-Shyn Chiang* (2019). Diverse Community Structures in the Neuronal-level Connectome of the Drosophila Brain. Neuroinformatics (online early publication) #: equal contribution
- Hung-Hsiu Yen, Rui Han and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2019). Quantification of Visual Fixation Behavior and Spatial Orientation Memory in Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13:215
- Huang-Yu Yao, Hsuan-Pei Huang, Yu-Chi Huang and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2019). Flyintel - a Platform for Robot Navigation based on a Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Network. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) p.219-220 (Conference proceeding)
- Yu-Chi Huang, Cheng-Te Wang, Ta-Shun Su, Kuo-Wei Kao, Yen-Jen Lin, Chao-Chun Chuang, Ann-Shyn Chiang and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2018). A Single-Cell Level and Connectome-Derived Computational Model of the Drosophila Brain. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 12:99
- Ta-Shun Su, Wan-Ju Lee, Yu-Chi Huang, Cheng-Te Wang and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2017). Coupled symmetric and asymmetric circuits underlying spatial orientation in fruit flies. Nature Communications. 8:139.
- Po-Yen Chang, Ta-Shun Su, Chi-Tin Shih* and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2017). The Topographical Mapping in Drosophila Central Complex Network and its Signal Routing. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 11:26.
- Chung-Chuan Lo* and Ann-Shyn Chiang* (2016). Toward Whole-Body Connectomics. Journal of Neuroscience. 36:11375-11383.
- Chung-Chuan Lo*, and Xiao-Jing Wang* (2016). Conflict Resolution as Near-Threshold Decision-Making: A Spiking Neural Circuit Model with Two-Stage Competition for Antisaccadic Task. PLOS Computational Biology. 12:e1005081.
- Cheng-Wei Li, Chung-Chuan Lo, and Bor-Sen Chen* (2016). Estimating Sensorimotor Mapping From Stimuli to Behaviors to Infer C. Elegans Movements by Neural Transmission Ability Through Connectome Databases. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 27:2229 - 2241.
- Cheng-Wei Li, Chung-Chuan Lo, and Bor-Sen Chen* (2015). Robust Sensorimotor Control of Human Arm Model under State-Dependent Noises, Control-Dependent Noises and Additive Noises. Neurocomputing. 167:61-75.
- Chung-Chuan Lo# , Cheng-Te Wang and Xiao-Jing Wang*# (2015). Speed-accuracy tradeoff by a control signal with balanced excitation and inhibition. Journal of Neurophysiology. 114:650-661. (#: equal contribution)
- Chi-Tin Shih*, Olaf Sporns, Shou-Li Yuan, Ta-Shun Su, Yen-Jen Lin, Chao-Chun Chuang, Ting-Yuan Wang, Chung-Chuan Lo, Ralph J. Greenspan, and Ann-Shyn Chiang* (2015). Connectomics-Based Analysis of Information Flow in the Drosophila Brain. Current Biology. 25:1-10
- Yi-Hsuan Lee, Yen-Nan Lin, Chao-Chun Chuang and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2014). SPIN: A Method of Skeleton-based Polarity Identification for Neurons. Neurinformatics. 12:487.
- Yen-Nan Lin, Po-Yen Chang, Pao-Yueh Hsiao and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2014). Polarity-specific high-level information propagation in neural networks. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 8:27.
- Pao-Yueh Hsiao and Chung-Chuan Lo* (2013). A Plastic Cortico-Striatal Circuit Model of Adaptation in Perceptual Decision. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 7:178.
- Chung-Chuan Lo, Ronny P. Bartsch and Plamen Ch. Ivanov* (2013). Asymmetry and basic pathways in sleep-stage transitions. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 102:10008.
- Cheng-Te Wang, Chung-Ting Lee, Xiao-Jing Wang, Chung-Chuan Lo* (2013). Top-down modulation on perceptual decision by exogenous and endogenous balance of excitation and inhibition. PLoS One. 8:e62379.
- Ying-Zu Huang, Chin-Song Lu, John C. Rothwell, Chung-Chuan Lo, Wen-Li Chuang, Yi-Hsin Weng, Szu-Chia Lai, Rou-Shayn Chen* (2012) Modulation of the disturbed motor network in dystonia by multisession suppression of premotor cortex. PLoS One. 7:e47574.
- Chung-Chuan Lo, Leanne Boucher, Martin Pare, Jeffery D. Schall and Xiao-Jing Wang* (2009). Proactive inhibitory control and attractor dynamics in countermanding action: a spiking neural circuit model. Journal of Neuroscience. 29:9059-9071.
- Chung-Chuan Lo and Xiao-Jing Wang* (2006). Cortico-basal ganglia circuit
mechanism for a decision threshold in reaction time tasks. Nature Neuroscience. 9:957-963 (2006).
- Chung-Chuan Lo, Thomas Chou, Thomas Penzel, Thomas E. Scammell, Robert E. Strecker, H. Eugene Stanley, and Plamen Ch. Ivanov* (2004). Common scale-invariant pattern of
sleep-wake transitions across mammalian species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 50:17545-17548
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Thomas Penzel, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Chung-Chuan Lo, Karlheinz Voigt and Claus Vogelmeier* (2003). Dynamics of Heart Rate
and Sleep Stages in Normals and Patients with Sleep Apnea.
Neuropsychopharmacology 28:S48-S53
- Chung-Chuan Lo, L. A. Nunes Amaral, S. Havlin, Plamen. Ch. Ivanov, Thomas Penzel, J.-H. Peter and H. Eugene Stanley* (2002). Dynamics of sleep-wake transitions during sleep. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 57:625-631.
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Plamen. Ch. Ivanov* and Chung-Chuan Lo (2002). Stochastic Approaches to Modeling
of Physiological Rhythms, in Modeling Biomedical signals, edit.
G. Nardulli & S. Stramaglia. World Scientific.
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Chung-Chuan Lo, Jui-Hung Hsu, You-Cheng Sheu, Chein-Min Chiang, Wen-guey Wu, Wunshain Fann* and Pei-Hsi Tsao (1998). Effect of D57N mutation on membrane activity and molecular unfolding of cobra cardiotoxin. Biophysical Journal 75: 2382-2388
Other Publications
- 電腦與人腦:現代電腦架構之父馮紐曼的腦科學講義 -- 中文版導讀 (貓頭鷹出版社,出版日期:2021-05-06)
- 昆蟲動態視覺與其仿生應用,<電腦與通訊> 2020年12月號184期
- 小腦袋大數據-大腦圖譜研究計畫 <科學月刊> 2018 三月號
Media Coverage and Interviews
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Nature News: Gigantic map of fly brain is a first for a complex animal. (Commentary on Winding, M. et al. Science 379, eadd9330) (Mar. 10, 2023)
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TaiwanPlus: Bug-Inspired Tech Improves Drone Capabilities (Feb. 08, 2023)
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聯合報:清華生科、電機團隊聯手 研發仿生物視覺技術(Jan. 27, 2022)
Other media sources: 自由日報、鏡週刊、蘋果新聞網
- Businesswire: NTHU Research Team Teaches Drone to Fly Like an Insect (2020)
清華研發仿視神經AI晶片 讓無人機學果蠅飛行 Central News Agency (中央社), February 2, 2020. Other media sources: 聯合報、三立
- Gene Ng, 果蠅腦中的神經元,如何跟機械的指南車一樣可以指出固定方向? published September 29, 2017. Inside (http://www.inside.com.tw/)
- 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
- Roozbeh Kiani, Timothy D Hanks & Michael N Shadlen. When is enough enough?
Nature Neuroscience 9, 681-683 (2006).
- Taylor McNeil, Bring on the Sandman. Bostonia. Summer 2002.
(http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2002/summer/explorations/sleep/index.html)
- Michael Brooks, Feature: Snooze Control. New Scientist p. 173, 38-40,
Feb. 23, 2002.
- "Tired? Well, you woke up 35 times last night", The Daily Mail, p. 35,
Feb. 21, 2002.
- "Sleep well last night? You woke up 37 times", The Mirror, Feb. 21, 2002.
- Complex Digest issue 51, Dec. 19 2001. (http://www.comdig.de/ComDig01-51/#12)
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