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Kefei LIU

PhD in Neuroscience

Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014

Assistant Professor

Thrust of Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering

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Biography

Dr. Kefei Liu is an assistant professor in Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE) Thrust, Systems Hub, HKUST (GZ), and in The Brain and Intelligence Research Institute.

He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Pharmaceutical engineering from Jilin University. And received his Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from Institute of neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he conducted postdoctoral research at School of medicine, Yale university.

Dr. Kefei Liu studies neural activities in visual neural system and hippocampus using in vivo electrophysiology and imaging, to investigate the encoding of outside world by neuronal population activities of the brain during awake and sleeping status, to explore the neural mechanism of spatial navigation, visual perception and learning and memory. He had multiple discoveries in sensory neural systems, then in hippocampus his studies found context orientation selectivity of hippocampal neurons and neuronal sequences generation by short motifs. His studies have been published in Neuron, Science, Nature communications and other high impact international academic journals.

Research
Interests

System neuroscience

Neural coding

Spatial navigation

Learning and memory

Sleep

Hippocampus

Visual neural system

Publications

Liu, K., Sibille, J., & Dragoi, G. (2024). Nested compressed co-representations of multiple sequential experiences during sleep. Nature Neuroscience, 1-13.

Harris, K. M., Wang, L., Mu, G. M., Lu, Y., So, C., Zhang, W., Ma, J., Liu, K., Wang, W., Zhang, M. W. B., Ho, R. C. (2023) Measuring the suicidal mind: The ‘open source’ Suicidality Scale, for adolescents and adults. PLoS one, 18(2), e0282009.

Liu, K., Sibille, J., & Dragoi, G. (2021). Orientation selectivity enhances context generalization and generative predictive coding in the hippocampus. Neuron, 109(22), 3688-3698.

Farooq, U., Sibille, J., Liu, K., & Dragoi, G. (2019). Strengthened temporal coordination within pre-existing sequential cell assemblies supports trajectory replay. Neuron, 103(4), 719-733.

Liu, K., Sibille, J., & Dragoi, G. (2019). Preconfigured patterns are the primary driver of offline multi‐neuronal sequence replay. Hippocampus, 29(3), 275-283.

Liu, K., Sibille, J., & Dragoi, G. (2018). Generative predictive codes by multiplexed hippocampal neuronal tuplets. Neuron, 99(6), 1329-1341.

Mu, D., Deng, J., Liu, K. F., Wu, Z. Y., Shi, Y. F., Guo, W. M., … & Sun, Y. G. (2017). A central neural circuit for itch sensation. Science, 357(6352), 695-699.

Jiang, S., Liu, Y. F., Wang, X. M., Liu, K. F., Zhang, D. H., Li, Y. D., … & Zeng, S. Q. (2016). Automated, highly reproducible, wide-field, light-based cortical mapping method using a commercial stereo microscope and its applications. Biomedical Optics Express, 7(9), 3478-3490.

Zhu, Y., Qiao, W., Liu, K., Zhong, H., & Yao, H. (2015). Control of response reliability by parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the visual cortex. Nature communications, 6(1), 6802.

Liu, K., & Yao, H. (2014). Contrast‐dependent OFF‐dominance in cat primary visual cortex facilitates discrimination of stimuli with natural contrast statistics. European Journal of Neuroscience, 39(12), 2060-2070.