
个人简介
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.
研究领域
System neuroscience
Neural coding
Spatial navigation
Learning and memory
Sleep
Hippocampus
Visual neural system