Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Education
- Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, in progress
- M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2021
- B.A. in Mathematics and Economics (dual degree), Baruch College, City University of New York, 2018
Research Experience (since 2020)
- Greduate Research Assistant, Columbia University, Jun 2019 – Present
- Research Assistant, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institude, Dec 2017 – Dec 2022
- Research Assistant, Columbia University, Mar 2020 – Sep 2020
Patents
- Application number: 18054447, Closed-loop simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)- electroencephalogram (EEG)- transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system.
Publications
Rodriguez-Moreno, D. V., Cycowicz, Y. M., Figner, B., Wang, Z., He, X., Geronazzo-Alman, Sun, X., Cheslack-Postava, K., Bisaga, A., Hoven, C.W., & Amsel, L.V. (2021). Delay discounting and neurocognitive correlates among inner city adolescents with and without family history of substance use disorder. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 48, 100942.
Faller, J.*, Doose, J.*, Sun, X.*, Mclntosh, J. R., Saber, G. T., Lin, Y., ... & Sajda, P. (2022). Daily prefrontal closed-loop repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) produces progressive EEG quasi-alpha phase entrainment in depressed adults. Brain stimulation, 15(2), 458-471.
Pantazatos, S. P.*, Mclntosh, J. R.*, Saber, G. T.*, Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., ... & Brown, T. R. (2023). The timing of transcranial magnetic stimulation relative to the phase of prefrontal alpha EEG modulates downstream target engagement. Brain Stimulation, 16(3), 830-839.
Egana-delSol, P., Sun, X., & Sajda, P. (2023). Neurophysiological markers of emotion regulation predict efficacy of entrepreneurship education. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 7206.
Labouesse, M., Torres-Herraez, A., Chohan, M., Villarin, J., Greenwald, J., Sun, X., ... & Kellendonk, C. (2023). A non-canonical striatopallidal Go pathway that supports motor control. Nature Communications, 14, 6712.
George, M. S., Huffman, S., Doose, J., Sun, X., Dancy, M., Faller, J., ... & Brown, T. (2023). EEG synchronized left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment resistant depression is feasible and produces an entrainment dependent clinical response: a randomized controlled double blind clinical trial. Brain Stimulation, 16(6), 1753-1763.
Sun, X., & Sajda, P. (2023). Circular clustering with polar coordinate reconstruction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08757. (Under Revision at IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics)
Mittal, A., Sun, X., Paisley, J., & Sajda, P. (2023). Uncovering invariant representations in functional neuroimaging with deep metric learning. bioRxiv, 2023-09.
Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., McIntosh, J., Saber, G. T., Huffman, S., ... & Sajda, P. (2023). Increased entrainment and decreased excitability predict efficacious treatment of closed-loop phase-locked rTMS for treatment-resistant depression. medRxiv, 2023-10.
Koorathota, S.*, Papadopoulos, N.*, Ma, J. L., Kumar, S., Sun, X., Mittal, A., Adelman, P., & Sajda, P. (2023). Fixating on attention: integrating human eye tracking into vision transformers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13969.
Talks
April 01, 2023
Conference Talk at 49th Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC2023), Philadelphia, PA
March 06, 2024
Conference Talk at American Physical Society 2024 (APS2024) March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Teaching
Honors & Awards (since 2020)
- 2023 IEEE BHI’23 National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Travel Award
- 2023 Selected as 2023 Cohorts of Columbia’s Program for for Diversity and Inclusion in Commercialization and Entrepreneurship (DICE)
- 2023 Young Scientist, 49th Northeastern Biomedical Engineering Conference
- 2023 Abstract Promotion - Outreach to the Press, American Physical Society (APS2023)
- 2021 1st prize, BMB’ 2021 Student Best Poster Award
- 2020 Data Institute Scholarship, Data Science Institute (DSI) Scholars Program
Service & Leadership (since 2020)
- University Life Ambassador, University Life, Aug 2023 – Present
- IEEE Student Ambassador, IEEEXtreme17.0, May 2023 – Oct 2023
- Department Representative, Engineering Graduate Student Council (EGSC), Jan 2023 – Jun 2023
- Treasurer, Graduate Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE), Jan 2020 – Dec 2020
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