Kexin Yuan
Email: kexinyuan@tsinghua.edu.cn
Disciplinary Focus:
Interdisciplinary Research at the Interface of Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Translational Medicine
Research Direction:
Our lab is dedicated to pioneering interdisciplinary research on brain science and disease mechanisms. We develop advanced technologies and methods—including the application of artificial intelligence—using both rodent and non-human primate models to drive fundamental studies, diagnosis, and the translation of innovative therapies for brain diseases. Our achievements have been published in leading journals such as Cell and Neuron, recognized as one of China’s Top Ten Advances in Neuroscience (2025), awarded the Gold Medal at the International Invention Exhibition, and successfully translated into industrial applications.
Representative Publications:
1. Meijie Li; KaMun Tan; Tehao Liu; Kexin Yuan* (2026). How Salient Sensory Stimuli Induce Brain-Wide State Alterations. Annual Review of Neuroscience, Accepted (Invited Review).
2. Yixiao Gao; Fengyuan Xin; Tao Wang; Chengjun Shao; Ying Hu; Zhuoya Chen; Yiwei Wang; Fenghua Xie; Tianyu Li; Sijie Li; Liqun Ren; Caiqin Li; Xian Yang; Zhongjun Yang; Meijie Li; KaMun Tan; Tao Bai; Changwei Wei; Hanchuan Peng; Kun Li; Yichang Jia; Kexin Yuan* (2025). VIVIT: Resolving trans-scale volumetric biological architectures via ionic glassy tissue. Cell, Aug 5:S0092-8674(25)00813-X.
3. Mengting Liu; Yixiao Gao; Fengyuan Xin; Ying Hu; Tao Wang; Fenghua Xie; Chengjun Shao; Tianyu Li; Ningyu Wang*; Kexin Yuan* (2024). Parvalbumin and Somatostatin: Biomarkers for Two Parallel Tectothalamic Pathways in the Auditory Midbrain; the Journal of Neuroscience, March 6, 44(10): e1655232024.
4. Kai Li; Fenghua Xie; Hang Chen; Kexin Yuan*; Xiaolin Hu* (2024). An Audio-Visual Speech Separation Model Inspired by Cortico-Thalamo-Cortical Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 46(10):6637-6651.
5. Yiwei Wang; Ling You; KaMun Tan; Meijie Li; Jingshan Zou; Zhifeng Zhao; Wenxin Hu; Tianyu Li; Fenghua Xie; Caiqin Li; Ruizhi Yuan; Kai Ding; Lingwei Cao; Fengyuan Xin; Congping Shang; Miaomiao Liu; Yixiao Gao; Liqiang Wei; Zhiwei You; Xiaorong Gao; Wei Xiong; Peng Cao; Minmin Luo; Feng Chen; Kun Li; Jiamin Wu; Bo Hong*; Kexin Yuan* (2023). A common thalamic hub for general and defensive arousal control. Neuron, 111(20): 3270-3287.
