Xiaoxiao Sun

Xiaoxiao Sun

Ph.D. Student at Columbia University

Conference Abstracts

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Upcoming

  • [Feb] Sun, X., Chen, Z., Doose, J., Faller, J., McIntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Huffman, S., Settle, E., Blankenship, A., Pantazatos, S.P., Yuan, H., McTeague, L., Goldman, R.I., Brown, T.R., George, M.S., & Sajda, P. (2025). Pre-treatment heart rate dynamics and their association with rTMS treatment response in major depressive disorder: evidence from a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation

  • [March] Sun, X., Rungratsameetaweemana, N., Lees, C., Tolston, M., Funke G., Wang, Q., & Sajda, P. (2025). Good-enough feature representations with persistent homology in physiological systems. American Physical Society 2025 (APS2025) March Meeting

2024

  • Lees, C., Sun, X., Sajda, P., & Tolston, M. (2024). Sublevel set persistent homology for distance-based classification of 1-dimensional time series. IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS) 2024 TopoInVis

  • Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., McIntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Huffman, S., Pantazatos, S.P., Yuan, H., Goldman, R.I., Brown, T.R., George, M.S., & Sajda, P. (2024). Increased entrainment and decreased excitability predict efficacious treatment for major depressive disorder patients given EEG-synchronized rTMS. 2024 NYC Neuromodulation Conference

  • Qin, Y., Zhang, W., Lee, R., Sun, X., & Sajda, P. (2024). Pupil-linked arousal is predictive of team performance in a virtual reality (VR) sensory-motor task. In 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)

  • Sun, X., Zhao, C., Koorathota, S., & Sajda, P. (2024). EEG-estimated functional connectivity, and not behavior, differentiates Parkinson’s patients from health controls during the Simon conflict task. In 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)

  • Sun, X., Chang, C., Mittal, A., Habeck, C., Stern, Y., & Sajda, P. (2024). Uncovering lifespan-consistent representations in cognitive function through metric learning. In Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2024 (CNS2024) Annual Meeting

  • Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., McIntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Huffman, S., Pantazatos, S.P., Yuan, H., Goldman, R.I., Brown, T.R., George, M.S., & Sajda, P. (2024). Brain synchronization as a predictive factor in depression treatment given EEG-synchronized rTMS. American Physical Society 2024 (APS2024) March Meeting

2023

  • Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., McIntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Huffman, S., Pantazatos, S.P., Yuan, H., Goldman, R.I., Brown, T.R., George, M.S., & Sajda, P. (2023). Enhanced entrainment and reduced excitability as predictive neurophysiological markers of efficacious EEG-rTMS treatment for major depressive disorder. Society of Neuroscience 2023 (#SfN23)

  • He, H., Sun, X., Doose, J., Blankenship, A., Mclntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Faller, J., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Huffman, S., Pantazatos, S.P., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2023). Associations of EEG-synchronized rTMS treatment of depression with changes in modulated functional connectivity: a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study. Society of Neuroscience 2023 (#SfN23)

  • Cycowicz, Y.M., Sun, X., Amsel, L.V., Hoven, C.W., & Rodriguez-Moreno, D.V. (2023) Differential neural activity during decision making reflects both reward-impulsivity and decision difficulty, Brain Informatics: 16th International Conference (BI2023)

  • Sun, X., & Sajda, P. (2023). Preserving diagnostic features in compressed physiological data using persistent homology. In IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI’23)

  • He, H., Sun, X., Doose, J., Blankenship, A., Mclntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Faller, J., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Huffman, S., Pantazatos, S.P., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2023). Changes in network connectivity induced by TMS stimulation of DLPFC: a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM) 2023

  • Sun, X., & Sajda, P. (2023). Polar coordinate reconstruction for circular clustering with neural data. In 11th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (IEEE-NER23)

  • Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., McIntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Blankenship, A., Huffman, S., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2023). Increased entrainment and decreased excitability predict efficacious treatment for major depressive disorder patients given EEG-synchronized rTMS. Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBC) 2023

  • Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., Mclntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Blankenship, A., Huffman, S., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2023). Daily prefrontal closed-loop repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) produces a progressive entrainment-dependent clinical response in depressed adults. American Physical Society 2023 (APS2023) March Meeting

  • Sun, X., Doose, J., Faller, J., Mclntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Blankenship, A., Huffman, S., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2023). Closed-loop phase-locked rTMS treatment decreases global cortical excitability in major depressive disorder patients. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation 16(1), p.397.

  • He, H., Sun, X., Doose, J., Blankenship, A., Mclntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Faller, J., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Huffman, S., Pantazatos, S.P., S., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2023). Whole-brain analysis of concurrent TMS-EEG-fMRI reveals brain-wide state-dependent TMS effects. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation 16(1), p.405.

2022

  • Qin, Y., Zhang, W., Lee, R., Sun, X., & Sajda, P. (2022). Predictive power of pupil dynamics in a team based virtual reality task. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 592-593)

  • Sun, X., Cycowicz, Y.M., Rodriguez-Moreno, D.V., Hoven, C.W., & Amsel, L.V. (2022). Neural activity based on reaction time during impulsive decision making. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM) 2022, #MT637

  • Sun, X., McIntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Pantazatos, S.P., Doose, J., Faller, J., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Blankenship, A., Huffman, S., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Sajda, P., & Brown, T.R. (2022). TMS-evoked BOLD activation in anterior cingulate cortex depends on frontal alpha phase at TMS onset. Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBC) 2022

2021

  • Sun, X., Han, Z., Faller, J., Doose, J., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2021). EEG alpha phase synchronized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for non-invasive treatment of major depression disorders. 2021 Virtual Symposium and Workshop on Brain, Mind and Body: Cognitive Neuroengineering for Health and Wellness (BMB’2021)

  • Cycowicz, Y.M., Rodriguez-Moreno, D.V., Sun, X., Bista, K., Amsel, L.V., & Hoven, C.W. (2021). Behavioral and brain differences between younger and older adolescents performing a delay discounting task. The Flux 2021 Virtual Congress

  • Amsel, L.V., Rodriguez-Moreno, D.V., Sun, X., Hoven, C.W., & Cycowicz, Y.M. (2021). Reaction time and impulsive decision making in a delay discounting task. Society for NeuroEconomics (SNE) 2021 Conference

  • Faller, J., Doose, J., Sun, X.*, Mclntosh, J.R., Saber, G.T., Lin, Y., Teves, J.B., Blankenship, A., Huffman, S., Goldman, R.I., George, M.S., Brown, T.R., & Sajda, P. (2021). Six weeks of daily prefrontal closed-loop repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) produces progressive eeg-α phase entrainment in depressed adults. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation, 14(6), p.1624.

  • Labouesse, M.A., Villarin, J.M., Torres-Herraez, A., Sun, X., Lam, S., Bonaventura, J., Carvalho Poyraz, F., Greenwald, J., Tang, A., Michaelides, M., … & Kellendonk C. (2021). New players in the basal ganglia circuitry: striatal D1R expressing axonal collaterals to the GPe act as a second direct pathway to support motor control. SfN Global Connectome 2021, #P204.02