CANDY Lab

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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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 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Penghui joined the team as an undergraduate research assistant for the 2023 Fall semester. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree at the Southern University of Science and Technology, with a major in Intelligent Medical Engineering. Penghui is particularly interested in computational and cognitive neuroscience, machine learning, and bioimaging techniques such as fMRI and PET. Besides his studies, he also enjoys listening to all kinds of music, long-distance jogging, and cooking.
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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)