Jingyuan Chen
Principle Investigator
Jingyuan is an Assistant Professor at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University with a major in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Statistics. In her spare time, she likes traveling, calligraphy, and drawing cartoons.
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Sara Nolin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sara is an postdoctoral research fellow in the NIH T32 Program to enrich translation and multimodal research in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, PET-MR in ADRD at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests focus on using PET and MRI imaging techniques to better understand aging and Alzheimer's disease. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting, skiing, and reading.
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Shirley Feng
Research Technician II
Shirley is the lab manager and a research assistant in the CANDY lab. She earned her B.S. in Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience from UCSD. Her research interests are in functional neuroimaging and its application to better understanding internalizing and neurodegenerative disorders. Outside of work hours, she likes sketching, reading fantasy novels, and petting other people's cats.
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Penghui Du
Visiting Graduate Student
Penghui joined the CANDY Lab as an undergraduate research assistant in Fall 2023 and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Neuro-X at EPFL. His research interests focus on neuroimaging data analysis (MRI and PET) and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques. He hopes to translate insights from neuroimaging into advances that benefit clinical practice and disease research. Outside the lab, you’ll often find him experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.
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Emma Yeon
Summer Intern
Emma is a summer intern at the CANDY lab. She is currently a student at Bronxville High School in New York. Emma is particularly interested in computational neuroscience and bioimaging techniques. In her free time, she enjoys playing squash, field hockey, and the piano, making digital artworks, and reading science fiction novels.
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Dr. Jinaffe
Lab mascot
Jinaffe is the founding member of the CANDY lab. He first met Jingyuan at her Ph.D. hooding ceremony and then took the road trip with her all the way from California to Boston (that was also how he got the neck injury…). His research interests are daydreaming and daydreaming.
Alumni
Sean Coursey (Undergraduate research assistant)
Dakota Fan (Research Technologist)
Xiao Zhang (summer student, now a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University)
Zihad Syed (summer student at Northeastern University)
Deborah Wanderley dos Santos (Harvard part-time intern, now a Ph.D. student at Northeastern University)
Priyadharshini Santhanakrishnan (summer student, now a Ph.D. student at the National University of Singapore)
Neo Nyoni (Northeastern part-time intern)
Jennifer Yeo (Northeastern Co-op student, now a master's student at Boston University)
Angel Huang (MIT UROP student, now a software developer at Five Rings LLC)
Xue Zhang (visiting Ph.D. student from Tsinghua University, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford)
