Dr. He is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Radiology at NYU Langone Health. She obtained her B.S. in Biology from Tsinghua University and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining NYU Langone, she led her own independent research group in the intramural research program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, with an intramural equivalent of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. Her research uses a combination of invasive and non-invasive multimodal human brain imaging, brain stimulation, and computational and theoretical approaches to investigate the neural bases of conscious vs. unconscious processing in the human brain. Other research interests include spontaneous brain activity, arrhythmic brain activity, and nonlinear brain dynamics. She has delivered keynote lectures at multiple international conferences and is currently a deputy editor of Neuroscience of Consciousness. Her work has received coverage by media such as Discover Magazine and Yahoo!News.
