Yiqi Jiang

Yiqi Jiang

PhD in Electrical Engineering @ Stanford

About me

I’m Yiqi Jiang, currently a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Mark Schinitzer and Prof. Scott Linderman. I obtained my Bachelor degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and a minor in Applied Mathematics in 2022 from Cornell University, where I worked with Prof. Peter Doerschuk on biomedical images processing. During the pandemic, I was study away at Tsinghua University, where I worked with Prof. Yu Wang in the NICS-EFC lab.

I am interested in the dynamics of neural activity within and across brain regions as they relate to motor control, reinforcement learning, and brain-machine interfaces. My approach involves computational analyses of large-scale neural activity patterns, and I am especially interested in bidirectional approaches that take neural dynamics as inspiration for improving machine learning and robotics, as well as using methods from these engineering fields toward understanding the brain.

Awards

  • Stanford Shenoy-Simons Foundation Grant (2025-present)
  • Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Student Membership Program, Wu Tsai Neuroscience (2023 - Present)
  • Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University (1%) 2022

News

  • I will give a talk at the Neural Data Science Seminar at Stanford on Feb. 9th.
  • I will host the MBCT seminar featuring speaker Prof. Mark Churchland on Jan. 26th.
  • I am elected as the receiver of the Stanford Shenoy-Simons Foundation Grant.
  • Our paper Extracting task-relevant preserved dynamics from contrastive aligned enrual recordings is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 as a spotlight poster.
  • I am hosting the MBCT seminar featuring speaker Prof. Cythia Mossn from John Hopkins University.
  • Our paper ActSort: An active-learning accelerated cell sorting algorithm for large-scale calcium imaging datasets is accepted by NeurIPS 2024.

Beyond Research

I have been practicing badminton since the age of 7. I am a National First-Class Athlete (China) and held the title of Beijing Provincial Champion in both Women’s Singles and Doubles. During my undergraduate studies, I played as WD1 for the Cornell Badminton Club, winning the National Collegiate Division 1A Championship.

I am also a classically trained musician. As a principal clarinetist, I have performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing) and the Lincoln Center (New York).