About
Me
My interests are in brain-machine interfaces (BMI). My research focuses
on improving the accuracy and user-friendliness of cortical neuroprosthetic
systems through machine learning and signal processing techniques.
I received my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and
Mathematics at Purdue University in 2004, and I received my Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
from Duke University in 2010. My graduate advisor was Craig Henriquez.
I currently work in the lab of Miguel
Nicolelis at Duke University.
CV
List of courses
Dissertation (34
MB pdf) and errata
Publications
Decoding for Brain Machine Interfaces
O'Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, Li Z, & Nicolelis MAL. (2012) Virtual Active Touch Using Randomly Patterned
Intracortical Microstimulation. IEEE
Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 20(1),
85-93. [LINK]
Li Z, O’Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL. (2011) Adaptive Decoding for Brain-Machine
Interfaces Through Bayesian Parameter Updates. Neural Computation, 23(12), 3162–3204. [LINK]
Li Z, Tate AJ, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL. (2011, November) Software-based scalable multichannel spike
acquisition. (Poster presentation)
Society for Neuroscience 2011 Annual meeting, Washington, D.C. [ABSTRACT Poster PDF]
O’Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, Li Z, & Nicolelis MAL. (2011, November) Towards a brain-machine-brain interface
with virtual active touch using randomly patterned intracortical microstimulation.
(Poster presentation) Society for
Neuroscience 2011 Annual meeting, Washington, D.C. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Lebedev MA, Tate AJ, Hanson TL, Li Z, O'Doherty JE, Winans JA, Ifft PJ,
Zhuang KZ, Fitzsimmons NA, Schwarz DA, Fuller AM, An JH, & Nicolelis MAL. (2011) Future developments in brain-machine
interface research. Clinics (Sao
Paulo) 66(S1): 25-32. [LINK PDF]
Li Z, O’Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL. (2010, November) Closed-loop adaptive decoding using
Bayesian regression self-training. (Poster
presentation) Society for Neuroscience 2010 Annual meeting, San Diego,
California. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Han Z, Li
Z, O’Doherty, JE, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL (2010, November) Decoding self-timed motor behavior with
hidden Markov models. (Poster
presentation) Society for Neuroscience 2010 Annual Meeting, San Diego,
California. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Li Z, O'Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL. (2009, October) Simultaneous BMI decoding and tuning model
update using Bayesian regression. (Poster presentation) Society for
Neuroscience 2009 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. [ABSTRACT Poster PDF]
Li Z, O'Doherty JE, Hanson TL, Lebedev MA, Henriquez CS, & Nicolelis
MAL. (2009) Unscented Kalman
Filter for Brain-Machine Interfaces. PLoS
ONE 4(7): e6243. [LINK
PDF]
Li Z, O'Doherty JE, Hanson TL, Lebedev MA, Henriquez CS, & Nicolelis
MAL. (2008, November) Unscented Kalman
filter for brain-machine interfaces. (Poster
presentation) Society for Neuroscience 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Grant BD, Li Z, Hanson TL, O'Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL. (2008, November) Multipurpose, expandable suite for
brain-machine interfaces. (Poster
presentation) Society for Neuroscience 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Li Z, O'Doherty JE, Hanson TL, Lebedev MA, Henriquez CS, & Nicolelis
MAL. (2007, November) N-th order
Kalman filter improves the performance of a brain machine interface for
reaching. (Poster presentation)
Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. [ABSTRACT Poster PDF]
Grant BD, Li Z, Hanson TL, O'Doherty JE, Lebedev MA, & Nicolelis MAL. (2007, November) Automated spike sorting of multiunit data
for brain-machine interface applications. (Poster presentation) Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting,
San Diego, California. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Computational modeling of human problem solving
Chu Y, Li
Z, Su Y, & Pizlo Z. (2010) Heuristics
in problem solving: The role of direction in controlling search space. Journal of Problem Solving. 3 (1),
27-51. [LINK PDF]
Pizlo Z, Stefanov E, Saalweachter J, Li Z, Haxhimusa Y, & Kropatsch WG.
(2006) Traveling Salesman Problem: a
Foveating Pyramid Model. Journal of
Problem Solving. 1 (1), 83-101. [LINK PDF]
Pizlo Z & Li Z. (2005) Solving
combinatorial problems: 15-puzzle. Memory
& Cognition. 33 (6), 1069-1084. [LINK PDF]
Pizlo Z & Li Z. (2004, January) Graph
pyramids as models of human problem solving. Proceedings of the SPIE-IS&T Conference on Electronic Imaging,
Computational Imaging, 5299, pp. 205-215. [LINK]
Li Z & Pizlo Z. (2003, November)
The Role of Mental Representation in Problem Solving. (Poster presentation) 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Vancouver, Canada. [ABSTRACT
Poster PDF]
Li Z & Pizlo Z. (2003, July) Pyramid
model of human problem solving. 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Mathematical Psychology, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. [ABSTRACT]
Li Z
& Pizlo Z. (2003, March) Effect of Problem Presentation on Mental Representation and Performance
in the M+M Puzzle. Hoosier Mental Life 2003, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Pizlo Z & Li Z. (2003, February) Human
Problem Solving: A New Direction. Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson, Wyoming.
Pizlo Z & Li Z. (2003, January). Pyramid
algorithms as models of human cognition. Proceedings of the SPIE-IS&T Conference on Electronic Imaging,
Computational Imaging, 5016, pp. 1-12. [LINK]
Pizlo Z & Li Z. (2002, November) Direction
and Distance in Human Problem Solving. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, Missouri.
Pizlo Z & Li Z. (2002, July) Problem
solving without search. 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical
Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
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Bio
I was born in Guangzhou, a large metropolis in southern China. I
spent the first seven years of my life there. My family moved to Iowa City, Iowa and later to West Lafayette, Indiana. After I
received a B.S. from Purdue University, I studied at Duke University and received my doctorate degree in 2010. I am now a post-doctoral
associate at Duke. I am married; my wife, Chengting (Cassandra) Lai, graduated
with a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina,
where she studied international hospitality and tourism management. Our
adorable baby girl, Kana Li, was born in 2011.
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I work on a programming game called Botbattle Reloaded
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