Basic Information

1.     Male, Born in Chongqing, China

2.     PhD, 1991, Chengdu University of Technology, China

 3.     PhD,  2005, Aalborg  University，Denmark

4.     Full Professor, 1995-.

5.     Director (founder), Key Lab for NeuroInformation, Ministry of Education of China (MOE),  www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn,, 2009-

6.     Director (founder),  Int Joint Research Center for NeuroInformation, Ministry of Science and Technology of China  (MOST) , 2013-

 7.     Director,  The Innovative Talent introduction Base for Neuroinformation (111 project), State Bureau of Foreign Affairs (SBFA), 2013-2021

 8.     Dean (Founder), School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) , 2001.11-2017.12

 9.     Director (Founder),  Research Center for Information in Medicine, UESTC （http://www.cim.uestc.edu.cn/),  2013.5-

10.  Dean (Founder),  Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (SCIBrain）（www.scibrain.org),  2018.12-

11.  Visiting scholar, EECS, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA,  1997.9-1998.8.

12.  Visiting Professor, Psychology department, Mcmaster University, Canada, 2000.10-2001.4

 13.  Visiting Professor,Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction ,Aalborg University, 2003.11-2004.2 

14.   Director(Founder), China-Cuba Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Neural Technology and Brain-Apparatus communication, 2024.12-

Services for International journals (Editors): 

1.         Brain Topography , Editorial Board Member，2018-

2.         IEEE  Trans NSRE,  Associate Editor，2018-2023

3.         Physiol Measurement, Advisory board Member，2018-

4.         Plos One, Academic Editor，2015-2018

5.         Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Associate Editor, 2018- 

6.         Frontiers in Neuroscience, Review editor, brain imaging methods,2015-

7.         Physics in Medicine and Biology, Advisory Board Member, 2002-2006

8.      Brain-Apparatus Communication: A journal of Bacomics, Chief editor, 2023-

9.      Jounral of Neural Engineering,  Advisory Board Member, 2018-

10.    Journal of Neuroscience Methods,  Editor, 2021-

 Services for Domestic/International Scientific Societies:

1.     Vice-Chairman, the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, 2015-2023

2.     Board Member, Chinese Society of Cognitive Science,  2013-

3.     President, Sichuan Society of Cognitive Science, 2015-

4.       Board Member,the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography( ISBET) 

                   （http://www.isbet.info/index.php/executive-board）

5.      International Scientific Committee of the 19th World Congress of Psychophysiology,  Lucca | Italy September 4 - 8 | 2018

                  （https://iopworld.wildapricot.org/iop18-committees）

6.    Chairman of the 20th World Congress of Psychophysiology, 2020-2021, chengdu

7.    President, Chinese EEG Consortium, 2019.10-

8.    Steering Committee Member, Global Brain Consortium, 2019.11-

9.      Board Member, Chinese Society of Neuroscience, 2023-

10.  Chairman, the International conference on  Neuroinformation, 1th(2008)- 8th(2024), Chengdu(1th-5th,7th-8th), Taiyuan (6th) ,Series Meeting Initiator 

11. The Education Activities chair,   IEEE Chengdu Section, 2007-2017

Main interests:

1.     Brain-Apparatus Communication,  including non-invasive brain-computer interface, neuromodulation, brain-living organ interaction etc.

2.    Neural signal processing, especially EEG, ERP, simultaneous  EEG-fMRI, brain network, neuromodeling (digital twins brain) and cloud platform for brain study

 3.      Neuroimaging of neurological disease (epilepsy, MCI, AD) and psychiatrical disorder (SZ, MDD)

Publications: 

           https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ClUoWqsAAAAJ&hl=en

           https://research.com/u/dezhong-yao

           https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/54424/overview

           https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dezhong_Yao

                   https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8042-879X

                  http://xueshu.baidu.com/scholarID/CN-BI75A0PJ

                    https://www.scholarmate.com/P/RFJF7f

Honors and Awards (Research):

1.     Electroencephalography and Clinical Neuroscience Society， Roy John Award , 2018

                  "for his impressive  and influential contributions to  electrophysioology  Research"（ http://www.ecnsweb.org/awards.htm)

2.        Fellow,  the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2017

         "for outstanding contributions to biophysical and mathematical models of the EEG and fMRI and educational infrastructure development"

              https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/cof-2220/

3.        Listed in the Elsevier "Most Cited Chinese Researchers" from 2014 to 2018

4.       National Excellent Teachers,   Ministry of Education(MOE), 2010

5.       Natural Science Award (first class),  MOE, 2010  

6.        Huangjiasi Science Award (second class), Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, 2019

7.    Outstanding Tianfu Scientist, Sichuan Provincial People's Government , 2018

8.    Progress of Science and technology award ( third class),  Sichuan Provincial People's Government , 2002

9.       Huangjiasi Science Award (fisrt class), Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, 2023

10.  Fellow, One of the first 30 fellows, Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, 2023

               11. Outstanding Youth Funding Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China，2005

Main contributions:

                  1. The physics and mathematics of electroencephalogram, Dezhong Yao, CRC Press, Florida, USA, 2024

                       A systematic EEG monograph, especially spatial analysis of EEG, covering  the electric field theory, zero reference technology etc, and cloud platform for EEG

 2.      EEG zero reference (REST), integrated in EEGLab, Fieldtrip, WeBrain, recommended by the IFCN guideline for EEG(2018) (www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/rest); 

        and "Best Practices in Data Analysis & Sharing in Neuroimaging using MEEG" of OHBM（https://cobidasmeeg.wordpress.com/）

3.     Scale-free music of Brain (http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/brainmusic.html);

4.     Information fusion of simultaneous EEG-fMRI(http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/NIT.html).

5.     China-Cuba-Canada(CCC)-axis http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/CCCaxis.html ， Int cooperation on brain aging based cloud platform (Webrain and Cbrain) http://webrain.uestc.edu.cn

More update details on Webs: 

Personal information

         //www.math-engineering.uestc.edu.cn/yaodezhong/zh_CN/index.htm  (Chinese)

         //www.math-engineering.uestc.edu.cn/yaodezhong/en/index.htm (English)

         http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/bci/member/yao/yao.html

Team information( Brain-apparatus communication）：

     http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/neuro/html/introduction/bcimembers.html

WebBrain Platform/ International cloud based brainformatics platform for sharing data, tools and computation resources together （centered on electrophysiological information of the brain） 

   http://webrain.uestc.edu.cn

EEG zero reference(REST):

      http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/rest/

Brainwave music:

      http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/brainmusic.html

Simultaneous EEG-fMRI：

      http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/NIT.html

Postdoctoral Recruitment：

      http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/neuro/html/team/NEND_Postdoc.html

  Honour and Awards (Education):

1.     "Teaching Reform and development of the Biomedical Engineering discipline”, second class award, Sichuan Province, 2005

2.      “Building a hierarchical talent growth platform with international and domestic competitions as the core, cultivating cross innovation capabilities in life 

      and  information", second class award, Sichuan Province, 2018

3.  National Excellent Teacher, MOE, 2010

     4.  Changjiang Scholar Professor, MOE, 2006

     5.  Excellent backbone teachers in national higher education institutions， MOE, 2002

Textbooks:

1)      The physics and mathematics of electroencephalogram, Dezhong Yao, CRC Press, Florida, USA, 2024, ISBN 9781032622477

2)      Introduction to Neuroengineering, Dong Ming, Dezhong Yao, People's Health Press, Beijing, China, 2022 ( In Chinese), ISBN: 9787117329972

3)      Research on Epilepsy Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cheng Luo, Qifu Li, Dezhong Yao,Hainan Publishing House, Haikou, China, 2017 (In Chinese). ISBN: 978–7–5443–7531–3

4)      Principles and Techniques of Simultaneous EEG-fMRI, Xu Lei, Dezhong Yao, Science Press, Beijing, China, 2014 (In Chinese), ISBN:9787030399830

5)      Neuroimaging of sleep-related epilepsies, Cheng Luo and Dezhong Yao, chapter 49(pp. 384-390) in “Neuroimaging of Sleep and Sleep Disorders”, Edited by Eri Nofzinger, Pierre Maquet, Michael J Thorpy. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN:9781139088268.

6)      Fundamentals of Neuroinformatics, Yang Xia, Dezhong Yao, UESTC Press, Chengdu, China, 2006 (In Chinese), ISBN: 978-7-5647-2670-6

7)      Biomedical Signal Digital Processing Technology and Applications, Neng Nie, Dezhong Yao, Zhengxiang Xie, Science Press, Beijing, China, 2006 (In Chinese), ISBN：7030149696

8)      Electrical Theory and Methods of Brain Function Exploration, Dezhong Yao, Science Press, Beijing, China, 2003 (In Chinese), ISBN:7-03-010279-7

PhD Students Cultivation

Ting Fu  (2003)-- senior technician (similar to associate professor), Transport department of Sichuan Province, chengdu.

    Huafu Chen (2004)---full Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC)

Yongjie Li (2004)---full professor, UESTC

Yiran Zhai (2005)-- Technician, Sichuan University(SCU), chengdu.

Peng Xu (2005)---full Professor, UESTC

Qun zhou (2007)---Full Professor, SCU, Chengdu.

Hongchuan Xiong (2008)—Lecture, Sichuan University of Chemical Science and Technology, Zigong, Sichuan.

Ling Li（2008）-- full Professor, UESTC

Yongxiu Lai(2009)---Associate Professor, UESTC

Tiejun Liu (2009) ---Full Professor, UESTC

Ling Wang(2009)---Associate Professor, UESTC

Zhenghua Wu(2010)---Associate Professor, UESTC

Gang Yin (2010)-- Engineer,  2th hospital of Sichuan Province, chengdu.

Guangzhan Fang (2011)-- Associate researcher(similar as associate Professor）, Chengdu Institute of Biology of Chinese Academy, Chengdu.

Yin Tian (2011)--Full Professor, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunication, Chongqing.

Ling Zeng (2011)--- Full Professor, UESTC

Qing Gao (2012)---Full Professor, UESTC

Ke Li (2012)---Full Professor, UESTC

Linnan Yang(2012)---Full Professor, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunan.

Yu Yin(2012)--- CEO of a Company, UESTC

Xinyu Du (2013)—Technician,  Beijing.

Dan Wu (2013)--- Associate Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing.

Xu Lei (2013)---full Professor, Southwest University, Chongqing.

Junpeng Zhang(2014)---Associate Professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu.

Yangsong zhang (2014)--Full Professor, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan.

Kaiqing Xue (2014)---Associate professor, Xihua University, Chengdu.

Rui Zhang (2015)--- -Associate professor, Zhengzhou University, zhengzhou, Henan.

Shan Gao (2015)--Full Professor, UESTC

Jiehui Hu(2014)--Full Professor, UESTC

Hua Yang (2016)—Full Professor, Sichuan Conservatory Of Music, chengdu city.

Yingshou Xing (2016)—Associate Professor, Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing Fuling.

Diankun Gong (2015), associate Professor, UESTC

Jianfu Li (2015)- assistant research fellow, UESTC

Xi Chen (2016) - associate professor, Civil Aviation Flight College of China

Li Dong (2016) - associate professor, UESTC

Weifang Cao(2017) - Lecturer, Shandong First Medical University

Mi Yang(2017) - Chief physician, Chengdu Fourth People's Hospital

Teng Ma(2017)- Lecturer, Henan College of science and technology

Wei Jing (2018)- Research assistant, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Dongrui Gao (2017) - associate Professor, Chengdu University of Information Engineering

Gujing Li(2018) - associate Professor, UESTC

Mingming Chen (2018), associate professor, Zhengzhou University, zhengzhou, Henan

Jinnan Gong(2019) - lecturer, Chengdu University of Information Engineering

Hui He(2019) - assistant research fellow, Chengdu Fourth People's Hospital

Mingjun Duan(2019) - Chief physician, Chengdu Fourth People's Hospital

Ben Klugah-Brown(2019) – associate professor, UESTC

Debo Dong(2020) – associate professor, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Yan Cui (2021)- Research assistant, Sichuan Province’s Hospital

Yuchao Jiang (2022)-PostDoc, Fudan University

Jiaxin Xie (2023)-- Research assistant,UESTC

SIjia Guo (2023)- Postdoc, UESTC

Xin Chang (2024), technician, chengdu

Ruifang Cui(2024), Postdoc, zhejiang