Department of Electronic Engineering, CityU HK

Rosa H. M. Chan
B.Eng. CUHK, M.S., Ph.D. USC, MIEEE

Assistant Professor

Room: G6356 Tel: (852) 3442-7651 Email: rosachan AT cityu DOT edu DOT hk

Dr. Rosa H. M. Chan received her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 at University of Southern California (USC), where she also received her M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering. During her graduate studies at the USC Center for Neural Engineering (CNE) led by Dr. Theodore W. Berger, Rosa and her colleagues were developing neural prostheses for damaged cognitive function resulting from injury or diseases such as Alzheimer’s. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. Her primary research interest is to develop biologically constrained mathematical models of mammalian neural systems.

She received the B.Eng (1st Hon.) degree in Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering and a minor in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2003. After graduation, she spent a year researching the manipulation of carbon nanotubes using dielectrophoretic force in the CUHK Center for Micro and Nano Systems led by Dr. Wen J. Li. She was later awarded the Croucher Scholarship and Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Overseas Studies in 2004. In the summer of 2010, she was awarded Google Scholarship and participated in the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program at NASA AMES. Her undergraduate and graduate studies have brought her to New York University (US), Kyushu University (Japan), and Bogazici University (Turkey) where she studied and/or researched computer animation and visual effects, microfluidics for astronautics applications, and biocomplexity.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computational Neuroscience, Neural Prosthesis, Bio-Signal Processing

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Will X. Y. Li, Ray C. C. Cheung, Rosa H. M. Chan, Dong Song, and Theodore W. Berger, "Real-Time Prediction of Neuronal Population Spiking Activity Using FPGA", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, in press.
  2. Mingbo Zhao, Rosa H. M. Chan, Peng Tang, Tommy W. S. Chow, and Savio W. H. Wong, "Trace Ratio Linear Discriminant Analysis for Medical Diagnosis: A Case Study of Dementia", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 431-434, 2013.
  3. Bo Yu, Rosa H. M. Chan, Terrence Mak, Yihe Sun, and Chi-Sang Poon, "On-Chip Systolic Networks for Real-Time Tracking of Pairwise Correlations between Neurons in a Large-Scale Network", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, iss. 1, pp. 198-202, 2013.
  4. Robert E. Hampson, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Andrew J. Sweatt, Mitchell R. Riley, Anushka V. Goonawardena, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Greg A. Gerhardt, Theodore W. Berger, and Sam A. Deadwyler, "Closing the Loop for Memory Prostheses: Detecting the Role of Hippocampal Neural Ensembles Using Nonlinear Models", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 510-525, 2012.
  5. Theodore W. Berger, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Jeff LaCoss, Jack Wills, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and John J. Granacki, "A Hippocampal Cognitive Prosthesis: Multi-Input, Multi-Output Nonlinear Modeling and VLSI Implementation", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 198-211, 2012.
  6. Robert E. Hampson, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Andrew J. Sweatt, Mitchell R. Riley, Gregory A. Gerhardt, Dae C. Shin, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Theodore W. Berger, and Samuel A. Deadwyler, "A Nonlinear Model for Hippocampal Cognitive Prosthesis: Memory Facilitation by Hippocampal Ensemble Stimulation", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 184-197, 2012.
  7. Will X. Y. Li, Rosa H. M. Chan, Wei Zhang, Ray C. C. Cheung, Dong Song, Theodore W. Berger, "High-Performance and Scalable System Architecture for the Real-Time Estimation of Generalized Laguerre-Volterra MIMO Model from Neural Population Spiking Activity ", IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), pp. 489-501, 2011.
  8. Robert E. Hampson, Andrew J. Sweatt, Anushka V. Goonawardena, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Theodore W. Berger, and Sam A. Deadwyler, "Memory Encoding in Hippocampal Ensembles is Negatively Encoded by Cannabinoid CB1 Receptors", Behavioural Pharmacology, vol. 22, iss. 4, pp. 335-346, 2011.
  9. Theodore W. Berger, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, and Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, "The Neurobiological Basis of Cognition: Identification by Multi-Input, Multi-Output Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling", Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 98, iss. 3, pp. 356-374, 2010.
  10. Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Nonlinear Modeling of Neural Population Dynamics for Hippocampal Prosthesis", Neural Networks, vol. 22, pp. 1340-1351, 2009.
  11. Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Spike Train Transformations for Hippocampal-Cortical Prostheses", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, no. 6, Part 1, pp. 1053-1066, 2007.
  12. Rosa H. M. Chan, Carmen K. M. Fung, and Wen J. Li, "Rapid Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes for Nanosensing by Dielectrophoretic Force", Nanotechnology, vol. 15, iss. 10, pp. S672-S677(1), 2004.
  13. Carmen K. M. Fung, Victor T. S. Wong, Rosa H. M. Chan and Wen J. Li, "Dielectrophoretic Batch Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors", IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 395-403, 2004.

BOOK CHAPTER

  1. Will X. Y. Li, Rosa H. M. Chan, Wei Zhang, Chiwai Yu, Dong Song, Theodore W. Berger, and Ray C. C. Cheung "High-Performance Computing for Neuroinformatics using FPGA", Wim Vanderbauwhede and Khaled Benkrid (eds.), High-Performance Computing using FPGAs, pp. 177-207, Springer, 2013.
  2. Robert E. Hampson, John D. Simeral, Theodore W. Berger, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis and Sam A. Deadwyler, "Cognitively Relevant Recoding in Hippocampus: Beneficial Feedback of Ensemble Codes in a Closed Loop Paradigm", Robert P. Vertes and Robert W Stackman Jr. (eds.), Electrophysiological Recording Techniques, Neuromethods, vol. 54, pp. 215-239, Springer, 2011.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Dong Song, Ioan Opris, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, Theodore W. Berger, "Functional connectivity between Layer 2/3 and Layer 5 neurons in prefrontal cortex of nonhuman primates during a delayed match-to-sample task", Proceedings of Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp 2555-2558, 2012.
  2. Will X. Y. Li, Rosa H. M. Chan, Dong Song, Theodore W. Berger, and Ray C. C. Cheung, "A dual mode FPGA design for the hippocampal prosthesis", Proceedings of Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp 4579-4582, 2012.
  3. Rosa H. M. Chan, Dong Song, Anushka V. Goonawardena, Sarah Bough, John Sesay, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Tracking the Changes of Hippocampal Population Nonlinear Dynamics in Rats Learning a Memory-Dependent Task", Proceedings of 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp 3326-3329, 2011.
  4. Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Estimation and Statistical Validation of Event-Invariant Nonlinear Dynamic Models of Hippocampal CA3-CA1 Population Activities", Proceedings of 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 3330-3333, 2011.
  5. Will X. Y Li, Rosa H. M. Chan, Wei Zhang, Ray C. C. Cheung, Dong Song, and Theodore W. Berger, "A Hardware-based Computational Platform for Generalized Laguerre-Volterra MIMO Model for Neural Activities", Proceedings of 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 7282-7285, 2011.
  6. Robert E. Hampson, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Dae Shin, Greg A. Gerhardt, Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Andrew Sweatt, John Granacki, Theodore W. Berger, and Sam A. Deadwyler, "Restorative Encoding Memory Integrative Neural Device: 'REMIND'", Proceedings of 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 3338-3341, 2011.
  7. Will X. Y. Li, Rosa H. M. Chan, Wei Zhang, Ray C.C. Cheung, Dong Song and Theodore W. Berger, "FPGA Architecture of Generalized Laguerre-Volterra MIMO Model for Neural Population Spiking Activities", 21st International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), pp. 44-49, 2011.
  8. Rosa H. M. Chan, Dong Song, Anushka V. Goonawardena, Sarah Bough, John Sesay, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Changes of Hippocampal CA3-CA1 Population Nonlinear Dynamics across Different Training Sessions in Rats Performing a Memory-Dependent Task", Proceedings of 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 5464-5467, 2010.
  9. Rosa H. M. Chan, Dong Song, and Theodore W. Berger, "Nonstationary Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Hippocampus", Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 4559-4562, 2009.
  10. Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Sparse Generalized Laguerre-Volterra Model of Neural Population Dynamics", Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 4555-4558, 2009.
  11. Rosa H. M. Chan, Dong Song, and Theodore W. Berger, "Tracking Temporal Evolution of Nonlinear Dynamics in Hippocampus Using Time-Varying Volterra Kernels", Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 4996-4999, 2008.
  12. Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Statistical Selection of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Nonlinear Dynamic Models of Spike Train Transformation", Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 4727-4730, 2007.
  13. Dong Song, Rosa H. M. Chan, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler, and Theodore W. Berger, "Physiologically Plausible Stochastic Nonlinear Kernel Models of Spike Train to Spike Train Transformation", Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 6129-6132, 2006.
  14. Carmen K. M. Fung, Maggie Zhang, Rosa H. M. Chan, and Wen J. Li, "A PMMA-based Micro Pressure Sensor Chip Using Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Elements", Proceedings of IEEE MEMS 2005, pp. 251-254, 2005.
  15. Guangyong Li, Ning Xi, Ali Saeed, Heping Chen, Jiangbo Zhang, Wen J. Li, Carmen K. M. Fung, Rosa H. M. Chan, Mingjun Zhang and Tzyh-Jong Tarn, "Experimental Studies of DNA Electrical Properties Using AFM Based Nano-Manipulator", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, pp. 308-310, August 2004.
  16. Guangyong Li, Ning Xi, Heping Chen, Ali Saeed, Wen J. Li, Carmen K. M. Fung, Rosa H. M. Chan, Mingjun Zhang, Tzyh-Jong Tarn, "Nano-Assembly of DNA Based Electronic Devices Using Atomic Force Microscopy", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ IROS 2004, pp. 583-588, 2004.
  17. Selina C. Qu, Carmen K. M. Fung, Rosa H. M. Chan and Wen J. Li, "Development of an Automated Microinjection System for Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Sensors", Proceedings of 5th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, vol. 6, pp. 5613-5618, 2004.

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