I am recent neuroscience Ph.D. from New York University. The title of my thesis is "Analyses of decision under risk in rats". Originally from China, I majored in neuroscience in University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and published a paper on the motorneurons of tadpoles with Dr. Wenchang Li. I also exchanged one year abroad in University of California, Irvine, during which time I worked as a research assistant in Prof. Bruce McNaughton's lab. Motivated to learn more about mechanisms of cognition, I joined an international Ph.D. program by NYU and NYU Shanghai, advised by Prof. Jeffrey Erlich. With zero programming experience prior to Ph.D., I taught myself several languages and contributed to the development of a high-throughput animal training system. I developed various behavioral tasks studying decision making in rodents, performed brain inactivations, and analysed and modelled high-dimensional data. The key courses during Ph.D. included Bayesian modelling, machine learning and causal inference. In the meantime, I actively took online courses and earned certificates in data science and deep learning. This interdisciplinary experience forged a profound interest in the intersection of AI and neuroscience, which I am excited to pursue as part of my next intellectual journey.

• Languages: R, Python, SQL, MATLAB, Stan
• Python libraries: NumPy, Pandas, SciKit-Learn, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, Keras
• R libraries: dplyr, ggplot2, lme4, shiny, caret
• Other skills: problem solving, critical thinking, experimental design, research, communicating complex ideas verbally and in writing

Looking for an opportunity to work in an intellectually challenging environment and solve real-world problems.

Zhu, Xiaoyue, Josh Moller-Mara, Sylvain Dubroqua, Chaofei Bao, and Jeffrey C. Erlich. "Frontal but not parietal cortex is required for decisions under risk." bioRxiv (2021).

Zhu, Xiaoyue, and Jeffrey C. Erlich. "A rodent paradigm for studying perceptual decisions under asymmetric reward." arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12278 (2021).

Li, Wen-Chang, Xiao-Yue Zhu, and Emma Ritson. "Mechanosensory stimulation evokes acute concussion-like behavior by activating GIRKs coupled to muscarinic receptors in a simple vertebrate." Eneuro 4, no. 2 (2017).