Affiliate Professor
Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Fields of Interest
Research
Selected Research
- Liu, Y.H., Smith, S., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Sumbul U., “Biologically-plausible backpropagation through arbitrary timespans via local neuromodulators”, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.
- Liu, Y.H., Smith, S.J., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Sumbul U., “Cell-type–specific neuromodulation guides synaptic credit assignment in a spiking neural network”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.Adviser: Eric T. Shea-Brown, Adviser: Stefan Mihalas
Research Advised
- Liu, Y.H., Smith, S.J., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Sumbul U., “Cell-type–specific neuromodulation guides synaptic credit assignment in a spiking neural network”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
- Liu, Y.H., Baratin A., Cornford J., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Lajoie G., “How connectivity structure shapes rich and lazy learning in neural circuits”, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 (accepted).