I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. I am fortunate to be mentored by Dr. Michael Prerau and Dr. Uri Eden, whose mentorship has guided and shaped my growth from doctoral training through postdoctoral research.

Research

My research lies at the intersection of sleep medicine, neuroscience, and statistical modeling, with a focus on how brain dynamics during sleep shape health and aging, regulate brain–body interactions, and reveal mechanisms underlying neurological and psychiatric dysfunction. Leveraging advanced computational approaches, my work seeks to uncover individualized neural signatures and identify biomarkers that advance diagnosis and treatment.

In my recent projects, I developed statistical approaches to investigate the temporal dynamics of sleep events, integrating point process modeling, neural signal processing, and large-scale cross-sectional databases to study how sleeping brain activity relates to neurological function across healthy and disordered states. These projects yielded novel insights into uncertainty in the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) (Thomas et al., 2020), respiratory event dynamics (Chen et al., 2022), individualized sleep spindle timing patterns (Chen et al., 2025), as well as their age-related changes. See my research portfolio for details.