Xiao Yang

Xiao Yang is a postdoctoral scholar working jointly in the laboratories of Professor Bianxiao Cui in the Department of Chemistry and Professor Sergiu P. Pașca in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Xiao received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University. With training in nanobioelectronics during her Ph.D. and a profound passion for extending its biomedical impact, Xiao aims to develop innovative nanobioelectronics in deciphering complex questions in human brain development and disorders for her postdoctoral studies. Xiao has been tackling a grand challenge in the field of human brain organoids: the unmet need for a long-term, minimally invasive brain-machine interface that allows for chronic interrogation of organoids in suspension without interfering with their 3D organization and differentiation. This platform holds significant promise in uncovering disease phenotypes and activity patterns underlying the assembly of the nervous system.