Rate My Professor Yi Wang

Dr Yi Wang is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at Massey University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Otago, awarded in 2020 for his thesis on EEG-based anxious personality prediction. His research focuses on computational neuroscience, machine learning, and neural decoding, integrating computational models with electrophysiological data such as EEG, LFP, and spike trains to investigate brain mechanisms underlying memory, emotion, and cognition. Dr Wang leads interdisciplinary projects that apply machine learning and deep learning techniques for neural data analysis, neural decoding methods for brain-computer interfaces, and interpretable AI approaches to study multi-regional brain interactions in memory age and fear conditioning. He has published in leading journals including Nature Communications and has received the Wiley Top Cited Article award for 2022-2023 as well as an early-career grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr Wang actively supervises students on projects in neural decoding and brain-computer interfaces and contributes to teaching in areas such as programming, algorithms, data structures, machine learning, and computational neuroscience. He maintains a visiting scientist role at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Japan.