Zhengchen Cai, PhD

A neuroimaging and principled probabilistic modeling enthusiast.

Oral presentations

International scale

1. Cai Z, Pellegrino G, Lina J.M, Grova C. Robust Bayesian Gaussian Process for Hemodynamic Response Function Deconvolution and Stimulus Amplitude Decoding. fNIRS 2021 (Student Research Excellence Award).

2. Cai Z, Pellegrino G, Spilkin A, Machado A, Vincent T, Abdallah C, Lina J.M, Grova C. Hemodynamic correlates of changes in neuronal excitability: a simultaneous Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) / functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. fNIRS 2018 in Tokyo.

Poster presentations

International scale

1. Cai Z, Pellegrino G, Spilkin A, Machado A, Vincent T, Abdallah C, Lina J.M, Grova C. Hemodynamic correlates of changes in neuronal excitability: a simultaneous Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) / functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. OHBM 2020 virtual.

2. Abdallah C, Cai Z, Spilkin A, Keraudran H, Delaire E, Dang-Vu TT, Mograss M, Lina J.M, Kobayashi E, Grova C. Hemodynamic response to interictal epileptiform discharges: whole night simultaneous EEG-NIRS recordings in drug-resistant epilepsy. AES 2019 in Baltimore.

4. Cai Z, Pellegrino G, Spilkin A, Vincent T, Lina J.M, Fecteau S, Grova C. Hemodynamic correlates of transient and stable changes in neuronal excitability: a simultaneous Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) / functional Near Infra Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. OHBM 2019 in Roma.

5. Cai Z, Chowdhury R, Machado A, Vincent T, Pellegrino G, Spilkin A, Lina J.M, Grova C. NIRS 3D Reconstruction Based on Maximum Entropy on the Mean (MEM). fNIRS 2016 in Paris.

6. Thomas Vincent, François Tadel, Alexis Machado, Zhengchen Cai, Giovanni Pellegrino, Louis Bherer, Jean-Marc Lina, Sylvain Baillet, Christophe Grova. NIRSTORM: a brainstorm plugin dedicated to joint EEG/fNIRS analysis. fNIRS 2016 in Paris.

7. Alexis Machado, Thomas Vincent, Zhengchen Cai, Jean Marc Lina, Eliane Kobayashi, Christophe Grova. Robustness of the general linear model to noise misspecification in fNIRS. fNIRS 2016 in Paris.

Provincial scale

1. Cai Z, Chowdhury R, Machado A, Vincent T, Pellegrino G, Spilkin A, Lina J.M, Grova C. NIRS 3D Reconstruction Based on Maximum Entropy on the Mean (MEM). 4th Annual PERFORM Centre Research Conference 2017 Montreal. (poster award).