Chia-Jung (Dana) Chang

Chia-Jung (Dana) Chang (張嘉容) is a PhD student in Neuroscience at MIT. She was a PhD student at Harvard-MIT joint program between 2014 and 2015. She received her master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2014, and obtained her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2012. She received the Irving T. Ho Memorial Scholarship in 2011, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in 2012, the Herchel Smith Fellowship in 2014, and the Singleton Presidential Fellowship in 2015.

Her research interests are mainly in computational neuroscience, physiology, and neural signal processing. She is currently studying how timing is measured and produced with probabilistic deliberation in the brain under the supervision of Prof. Mehrdad Jazayeri at MIT.

In 2011, she did summer research on a wireless neural recording system design project and a neural variability analysis project under the supervision of Prof. Krishna Shenoy and Prof. Teresa Meng at Stanford University. Her master thesis focuses on studying how cortical neurons represent marmoset vocalizations and explore the hierarchical information pathway in cortex under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoqin Wang at Johns Hopkins University.