Dr. Hesheng Liu
Founder & Chairman & CEO
Dr. Hesheng Liu is the Director of the Laboratory for the Study of the Brain Basis of Individual Differences at
Massachusetts General Hospital, the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He is also the
SmartState Endowed Chair Professor of Neuroscience, Director of Computational Brain Imaging Core, Associate Director of
Biomedical Imaging Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Hesheng's research focuses on developing novel neuroimaging and computational tools to reveal brain functional architecture in individual subjects. He is internationally recognized as one of the most significant contributors who is pushing fMRI toward clinical applications. Moreover, his research breakthrough on individual brain functional atlas has been viewed as "the turning point for neuroimaging."
Hesheng has 100+ publications on Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, PNAS, and many other top neuroscience journals, with over 13,000 citations. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Brain Informatics, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry, and sits on many academic journals' editorial board.
Dr. Hesheng's research focuses on developing novel neuroimaging and computational tools to reveal brain functional architecture in individual subjects. He is internationally recognized as one of the most significant contributors who is pushing fMRI toward clinical applications. Moreover, his research breakthrough on individual brain functional atlas has been viewed as "the turning point for neuroimaging."
Hesheng has 100+ publications on Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Nature Communications, PNAS, and many other top neuroscience journals, with over 13,000 citations. He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Brain Informatics, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry, and sits on many academic journals' editorial board.
Dr. Guoping Feng
Co-founder
Dr. Guoping Feng is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Guoping is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As a world-renowned brain scientist, Guoping is committed to studying brain synapses, neural circuit functions, and the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. His research on autism spectrum disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has extensively promoted human understanding of psychiatric illness and helped discover molecular targets for the new drug development.
Guoping serves as a scientific consultant for a number of government scientific research institutions and scientific research foundations, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and John Merck Foundation. He has won numerous awards, such as the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award, the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, and many scientific innovation awards from the Brain Research Foundations.
As a world-renowned brain scientist, Guoping is committed to studying brain synapses, neural circuit functions, and the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. His research on autism spectrum disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has extensively promoted human understanding of psychiatric illness and helped discover molecular targets for the new drug development.
Guoping serves as a scientific consultant for a number of government scientific research institutions and scientific research foundations, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and John Merck Foundation. He has won numerous awards, such as the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award, the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, and many scientific innovation awards from the Brain Research Foundations.
Dr. Robert Desimone
Co-founder
Dr. Robert Desimone is the director of the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Doris and Don Berkey
Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Robert is a member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, he has served as a director at the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the largest research organization in the world specializing in mental
illness. His laboratory has outstanding achievements in brain cognition. Numerous cutting-edge research results have
been published on Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, PNAS, and many other top neuroscience journals.
Robert sits on the boards of directors of the three McGovern Institutes in China (Tsinghua Univ, Peking Univ, and Beijing Normal Univ). He has also helped develop The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology. Furthermore, he was the judge and the international team leader for "The Brain," a popular TV show in China. Robert graduated from Macalester College and Princeton University.
Robert sits on the boards of directors of the three McGovern Institutes in China (Tsinghua Univ, Peking Univ, and Beijing Normal Univ). He has also helped develop The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology. Furthermore, he was the judge and the international team leader for "The Brain," a popular TV show in China. Robert graduated from Macalester College and Princeton University.