Jizheng Dong
Hello, I am Jizheng Dong, a Computer Science graduate student at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering.
Prior to joining NYU, I had the privilege of working as a research assistant in the system neuroscience lab of Professor
Yi Sun at Westlake University. Before that, I completed my undergraduate studies at Nanjing University, majoring in Applied Mathematics.
My research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including the analysis and modeling of animal behavior, neural activity, connectome, and transcriptome. Currently, I am working on a project that investigates the genetic basis for the neural connections of C. elegans and Drosophila.
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Recent Research
In this project, we developed multi-compartment Hodgkin–Huxley model to simulate the full motion detection circuit from photoreceptors to T4/T5 neurons. This model incorporated biologically detailed neuron morphology and neurotransmitter–receptor specificity to constrain and optimize model parameters.
In this project, we integrate single cell resolution EM connectomics data with single cell resolution genomics to discover the relationship between gene expression and circuit connectivity.
Past Research
ConVis: a web-based visualization system for large-scale connectome exploration that supports identity-preserving semantic zooming across organizational levels. The system enables seamless navigation between neuron populations and individual neurons while maintaining biological context, integrating hierarchical organization, 2D semantic overview, and 3D morphology visualization.
A fruit fly displays special standing
The project aims for the development of equipment for adaptive recording and analysis of 3D behavior in the free-behaving fruit fly.
How to improve the resolution for behavior recording is an important problem in systems neuroscience. To address this question, we plan to build equipment to track the free-behaving animals. This could be used for behavioral analysis and optical stimulation in brain areas.
Compared to the head-injured or restricted state under which many behavior experiments are performed, fruit fly display lots of behaviors that are not even observed when they are head-fixed, such as special standing and rolling. The existing results have shown that our equipment is valuable.
The project aims to locale and classify surface defects on a steel product.
It is a theoretical work. Please refer to this document for details.
It can auto arrange the paper reference into a csv, including author, title, year. Please see pdf_ref_spyder for details.
Publications
Preprint:
Jason Adhinarta, Jizheng Dong, Tianxiao He, Junxiang Huang, Daniel Sprague, Jia Wan, Hyun Jee Lee, Zikai Yu, Hang Lu, Eviatar Yemini, Saul Kato, Erdem Varol, Donglai Wei
bioRxiv 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.06.631621
Workshop:
Siyuan Zheng, Pai Liu, Xi Chen, Jizheng Dong, Sihan Jia
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) Wordplay Workshop
Poster:
Jizheng Dong, Alexander Ratzan, Himanshu Gupta, Sahil Faizal, Richard Mann, Erdem Varol
Neuroscience 2024, Society for Neuroscience
Jing Ning, Xing-jiang Zhang, Ji-zheng Dong, Zhou Li, Ye-feng Shao, Jun-long Wang, Dan-dan Chen, Qiong Liu, Yi Sun
The 16th Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society | poster
Jing Ning, Xing-jiang Zhang, Ji-zheng Dong, Zhou Li, Jun-long Wang, Dan-dan Chen, Qiong Liu, Ye-feng Shao, Yi Sun
The 16th Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society | poster
Jing Ning, Jizheng Dong, Xingjiang Zhang, Zhou Li, Junlong Wang, Dandan Chen, Qiong Liu, Yi Sun
CSHL Neurobiology of Drosophila 2021 | poster
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