Welcome to my website!
My name is pronounced as ‘Seen Dee.’ My Chinese name is 邸新.
I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). My research interest is mainly on understanding brain connectivity and brain network organizations using brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Click here for details about my research.
For more information, see my CV.
Current projects
- Functional brain developments during movie watching and resting-state in autism spectrum disorder: This is a NIH funded project to study the developments of brain dynamic and stable connectivity in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing controls. Undergraduate research opportunities are available. Please contact me if you are interested.
Latest publications
- Preprint: Effects of Tasks on Functional Brain Connectivity Derived from Inter-Individual Correlations: Insights from Regional Homogeneity of Functional MRI Data
- Preprint: Explorations of using a convolutional neural network to understand brain activations during movie watching
- The Significance and Limited Influence of Cerebrovascular Reactivity on Age and Sex Effects in Task- and Resting-State Brain Activity
Click here for a full list of my publications