Ze Shan Yao

Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, McGill

I graduated with a B.Sc. in joint Physiology and Physics from McGill university in 2008. I then fast tracked to a PhD program in Biomedical Engineering program of McGill. I am currently pursing my study in visual systems neuroscience and brain imaging lab, BIC-MNI, under the supervision of Amir Shmuel. My research focuses on characterizing the hemodynamic response of the brain relative to the underlying neuronal activation.

Related content: Professor Amir Shmuel; Simulation of laser profilometry; Spatial specificity of the hemodynamic response relative to neurophysiological activity; The effect of high-frequency (20 Hz) rTMS on locally measured cortical response to visual stimuli; The effect of continuous theta-burst rTMS on locally measured cortical response to visual stimuli; Spatial specificity of cortical blood-oxygenation and blood-volume signals: implications for high-resolution fMRI and fMRI-based decoding; Monte Carlo simulation of light propagation in heterogenous media and filling of the missing data in a 2D image; Spatial specificity of BOLD and CBV signals in pial vessels: implications for high-resolution fMRI